Globe and Mail, Fri Feb 3 2012
By: James Bradshaw
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Twenty-five university presidents converged in Ottawa to discuss Canada’s innovation agenda with parliamentarians on Tuesday and several of them cautioned that more Canadian students need to study abroad to develop strong worldwide connections and an instinct to innovate.
Georgia Anstey, a 21-year-old Vancouver native and UBC student, stumbled on a UBC international service learning program in 2010, and spent six weeks that summer in Swaziland working on a community-level HIV/AIDS project and talking to families. She quickly switched her major from history to international relations, and now has two longer study trips planned, to Uganda and France.
“It shifted my entire direction,” Ms. Anstey said. “Looking at trends with HIV is so staggering sometimes, you distance yourself from it in a classroom sense, from a book or a report. But when you know people, it definitely makes a difference.
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