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Category: Internationalization

College Financials 2022-23

StatsCan dropped some college financial data over the XMAS holidays.  I know you guys are probably sick of this subject, but it’s still good to have some national data—even if it is eighteen months out of date and doesn’t really count the last frenzied months of the international student gold rush (aka “doing the Conestoga”).  But it does cover the year in which everyone now agrees student visa numbers “got out of control,” so there are some interesting things to

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January 13, 2025 No Comments

Credulous Nonsense on Colleges from the CBC

There are a lot of things to be furious about these days but let me tell you, one of the things to be upset about is the CBC taking crapulous pot-shots at the college sector for no reason whatsoever. I refer to the story posted between Christmas and New Year’s entitled India’s trafficking claims against Canadian colleges reveal ‘exploited’ immigration, experts say, which was a continuation of an earlier story entitled India alleges Canadian colleges linked to trafficking foreign students

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January 8, 2025 2 Comments

The Road Ahead for International Students

You could be forgiven if, after the last few months, you thought that Canadian post-secondary institutions should be turning their attention away from international students. But nothing could be further from the truth. The underlying dynamics of international student recruitment have not changed—institutions still need money and provincial governments are basically united in their determination to prevent them from getting it from domestic sources—only the tactics going forward have. Let’s start on the college side. Their business has mostly been

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November 5, 2024 2 Comments

Marc Miller Strikes Again

On Monday last week, the Liberals got humiliated in a pair of by-elections in Quebec and Manitoba. In response, the Liberal party decided it needed to regain some popularity and that the best way of doing so was to kick universities and colleges a bit. And so the Minister of Immigration (and unofficial National Minister of Higher Education) Marc Miller announced a set of changes to study visas and post-graduation work visas. (How do I know this was a sudden, unplanned

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September 23, 2024 3 Comments

One Thought Plus One More

Good morning, all. This is the last week of the blog before summer begins. As usual, you’ll get my mid-year sign-off on Wednesday and my set of book reviews tomorrow. But today, I have two quick items to get off my chest (originally I had four, but I guess the other two will have to wait until September). To wit: 1) Bad Policy Incoming As I noted back here, the Ministry of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, Canada (IRCC) has, though a

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June 10, 2024 No Comments

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