{"id":1604,"date":"2009-02-03T21:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T04:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan.uvic.ca\/wordpress\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2021-10-31T13:00:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T20:00:09","slug":"re-china-canada-scholars-exchange-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan.uvic.ca\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/03\/re-china-canada-scholars-exchange-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: CHINA &#8211; CANADA Scholars&#8217; Exchange program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>the scholars exchange program wendy mentioned is for faculty members<br>and students who are interested in doing research\/study <em>in<\/em> china<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>http:\/\/www.chineseeducation.ca\/htmls\/edu\/16.html<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>===<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>there is another program also sponsored by china scholarship council (csc) with<br>uvic on phd students visiting uvic or getting degree at uvic<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>http:\/\/web.uvic.ca\/gradstudies\/news\/ChinaMOUstory.html<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>i had such a student applied last year and just started this january (yes, it&#8217;s<br>a long process), and i think i can share something from my experience (i wanted<br>to do this earlier but was swamped by various things recently)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>the student has to apply as usual at uvic (but indicating they are applying<br>for the csc scholarship as well)<\/li><li>you will evaluate the student as usual<\/li><li>if you decide to make an offer to the student, you need to indicate you are<br>covering their tuition at uvic (csc scholarship requires the host univ to<br>provide tuition waiver. many universities have, but uvic does not)<\/li><li>last year, the student had to get their application to csc by march 15 (not<br>sure about the timeline this year, but should be in the same range). since the<br>student (if still in university) needs to compete through home university (and<br>this year it will be more competitive), so normally they need the offer letter<br>much earlier than that to qualify at univ level<\/li><li>last year, the results of csc scholarship competition were known in may and<br>july (two rounds), respectively. if they can catch on the paperwork and visa<br>properly, they should be able to show up in sept<\/li><li>once they are on campus, you want to advise them to contact the chinese<br>consulate general in vancouver (who actually distributes the scholarship<br>quarterly) right away. the first installment may take several months to come,<br>so you may want to pay their graduate support by term (rather than month by<br>month) to cover the tuition payment at the beginning<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>that&#8217;s all i can recall right now. if you have any questions and need further<br>info, feel free to let wendy and me know. thanks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the scholars exchange program wendy mentioned is for faculty membersand students who are interested in doing research\/study in china http:\/\/www.chineseeducation.ca\/htmls\/edu\/16.html === there is another program also sponsored by china scholarship council (csc) withuvic on phd students visiting uvic or getting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pan.uvic.ca\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/03\/re-china-canada-scholars-exchange-program\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan.uvic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan.uvic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan.uvic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan.uvic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan.uvic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pan.uvic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1605,"href":"https:\/\/pan.uvic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions\/1605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan.uvic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan.uvic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan.uvic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}