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Category: Internationalization

Cape Breton, You Have to be Kidding Me

Faithful readers may remember my blog last year about Cape Breton University and how it doubled its international enrolment in one year, making an absolutely ludicrous amount of money in the process.  As a result of this phenomenal little piece of entrepreneurialism, Cape Breton has suddenly become hip in higher education circles, because the whole idea of anyone flooding into Sydney, Nova Scotia, let alone young people from halfway around the globe, is pretty astonishing to Sydneysiders as much as anyone else.  Whatever they’re

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October 17, 2019 2 Comments

International Students as a Labour Issue

I spent part of this week at College of the North Atlantic – Qatar in Doha.  Having had the pleasure of visiting in 2008, it was fascinating to see the evolution of the organization, particularly now that the institution is starting to pass from Canadian to Qatari control. One of the things we talked about quite a bit in the various sessions I attended and/or ran was the issue of delivering a Canadian curriculum to students whose secondary education was

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October 9, 2019 2 Comments

Ontario Colleges: International students up, Aboriginal students down

Lost in all the back-to-school period excitement was the release of Ontario college enrollment data for 2018-19. The recency of this Ontario data is fantastic, especially given that Statscan is two full years behind (the best data available on students nationally right now is 2016-17, because Ottawa fundamentally does not care about student data).  These are well worth a look because there are some wild things in there, especially if we look at students by “source,” which is a weird mixture

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October 3, 2019 No Comments

Counting Foreign Students

An American colleague of mine sent me a note the other day.  “So…Canada is heading to a million foreign students? That’s huge!”  To which my reaction was: “Wut?  Dude, it’s about a quarter of that.” At which point my colleague emailed me a recent story from ThePIE, a nifty little London-based outlet which covers international education.  It was called Will Canada have quadrupled its student numbers in eight years? by Dave Sage, who appears to be some kind of immigration and education

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June 14, 2019 1 Comment

Danger Ahead

Canadian universities and colleges like to congratulate themselves for their enormous success in increasing international student enrolments over the past few years.  And why not?  That success has brought Canadian institutions billions of dollars and allowed them to make up for roughly a decade of domestic tuition fee controls and stagnant core provincial funding. We have told ourselves a lot of stories over the last few years about why we have been so successful.  Many of them have to do

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June 10, 2019 1 Comment

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