Chargé d’Affaires, a.i. Francisco Noel Fernandez III (center) is joined by Cebu Technological University professors (left to right) Jerome Henales Ruiz, Chelo Durante, Sylvester Tan Cortes, and Ronnel Victor Kilat who are pursuing separate post-graduate research programs in the Université de Québec à Montréal (UQAM) as Canadian Government scholars.  

In a dinner hosted in Montreal on 19 November 2022, Chargé d’Affaires, a.i. Francisco Noel R. Fernandez III welcomed the latest group of Filipino scholars from Cebu Technological University (CTU) under the ASEAN-Canada Scholarships and Educational Exchanges for Development (SEED) program sponsored by the Government of Canada. The scholars are CTU faculty members pursuing post-graduate research programs in the Université de Québec à Montréal (UQAM) in the fields of business management, biology, agricultural science, and English.

CTU has a partnership agreement with UQAM to receive its faculty scholars, with its initial scholars participating in the SEED program during Autumn Term 2019. The current group of scholars is the fourth from CTU.