20 June 2022, Ottawa. Ambassador Rodolfo D. Robles met with University of Alberta’s (UoA’s) President Bill Flanagan and Vice-Provost and Associate Vice President (International) Cen Huang to further explore potential educational cooperation between UoA and its counterparts in the Philippines.

The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) sends Filipino scholars to the UoA to pursue Masters and Ph.D. degrees through the Graduate Scholarship Program (GSP), an arrangement between DOST and UoA which was signed on 22 March 2019.

There are currently five Filipino scholars enrolled under this program, with six additional scholars expected to join the program in the coming term.