Does Graduate School count as working experience?

[Steph.C]

Hi,

I just got a quick question regarding the working experience needed for PR application under the category of Canadian Experience Class. I am going to graduate from my Bachelor degree and I am applying for graduate school. I was wondering whether graduate school count as working experience, as it does at the perspective of students and professors, and that's the whole point of giving us a stipend.

If not, does being a teacher assistant during graduate study count?

Thanks in advance for your help

Steph

 

[CECapplicant]

If not, does being a teacher assistant during graduate study count?

Merely being in a grad school without being titled as RA or TA won't work!
Being TA works, subject to having the sufficient hours of employment.

However, aside from all these considerations, the proposed changes to the CEC category for 2013 seems to eliminate the eligibility of applying for this category while one is full time student.

See the link below, section 87.1(3)(a), which mentions that full-time study is not counted toward the required work experience.

gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2012/2012-08-18/html/reg2-eng.html

 

[chi_1988]

What CECapplicant said is right. Unless you are a TA/RA and you can demonstrate that you work full time, you cannot apply for PR via CEC.

But I also heard that it will not be possible from next year as well.