" Weekly Study Abroad News, just study abroad Weekly"
01
The Canadian province of Quebec may impose a "health tax"
(Source: BBC)
"Those who refuse to be vaccinated place a huge burden on Quebec"
Health Minister Yves Duclos recently said that Canadian provinces need to consider regimens to force people to vaccinate against COVID-19. Quebec Governor Gore said that those who refuse to be vaccinated will have to pay a "health tax" and that the "health tax" will not be a low symbolic charge! People who are unable to be vaccinated for medical reasons do not have to pay.
Other countries considering mandatory vaccination are:
- The Austrian government is about to start imposing a quarterly levy of €3,600 (quarterly) on unvaccinated citizens over the age of 14 in the country.
- The Greek government is about to begin imposing a fine (per month) of €100 (per month) on unvaccinated citizens over the age of 60 in the country.
02
Top 10 of Spelling Daddy University in the United States
(Source: Bloomberg official website)
The school gives priority to the children or relatives of alumni
The school's family background (alumni relatives) as one of the indicators of issuing offers is a legal way of admissions, which is called Legacy Admission.
The following is the percentage of alumni family descendants in the total number of students enrolled in the school
- Harvard University: 29.3%
- Cornell University: 22.1%
- University of Notre Dame: 22%
- University of Chicago: 19.7%
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 18%
- University of Southern California: 16%
- University of Pennsylvania: 16%
- Princeton University: 14%
- Yale University: 11%
- Duke University: 10.3%
03
The bully of the Winter Olympics
(Source: their Weibo)
Academics and sports are at the same time
Stanford University Xuebagu Ailing represented the Chinese team in three events of the Winter Olympics, and has won a gold medal so far! Zhou Jiaying, who also represented the Chinese team in the Winter Olympic ice hockey program, graduated from Princeton and worked on Wall Street. And the two female players whose first language is English are interviewed after the game, they try to use Chinese to answer reporters' questions. Ye Jinguang, the captain of the Chinese men's ice hockey team, also graduated from American colleges and universities, and entered Boston University in 2004, choosing a major in crime scene investigation!
Zhou Zhifang and Chen Wei both represented the American team and participated in the men's figure skating event. Wei Chen is currently studying at Yale University, majoring in statistics. Zhou Zhifang is currently studying at Brown University and is temporarily unable to participate in the competition because he tested positive for covid-19.
04
Direct flights are expected to resume in mid-February!
(Source: CBI official website)
The premise is: pass a two-week test
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) recently published a report that china and the UK have agreed to resume direct flights in mid-February 2022 (for a period of two weeks). If the test results are satisfactory, direct flights between London Heathrow and Shanghai Pudong Airport will be resumed in the future. However, in the test, the maximum passenger capacity must be 30%, and the positive cases per class are less than 5 to have the possibility of recovery.