Concordia University students want probe of foreign-student recruiters

By Nicholas Keung. Concordia University students have asked Canada’s international education industry to probe the use of recruitment agents after foreign students there complained of substandard conditions in their home-stay arrangements. Some students from mainland China said they arranged their accommodations in Canada through Peter Low, director of the Concordia China Student Recruitment Partner program, and were promised furnished rooms and meals.
“Some of them don’t get enough food. Their access to hot water and use of kitchen are restricted, and they can’t have visitors,” Nadine Atallah, vice-president of Concordia’s Undergraduate Students’ Association, said at a protest in Montreal this week. More...