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Category: Internationalization

Three Developments on the International Students File

First, there is the Conestoga-Sault College stand-off. You have probably already seen this one, but I have to point it out anyways, because it’s the most objectively hilarious thing that’s happened in years. Briefly, Sault College President David Orazietti made some comments to the effect that Conestoga President John Tibbits (the man who brought in 30,000 international students into southwestern Ontario, built new campuses to house them all and named one of them after himself) was the “bad actor” which

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February 20, 2024 1 Comment

Student Visas, Old Systems and New

If you want to know how messed up the visa processing system is about to get in the next couple of months…well, buckle up. Y’all may remember that when Minister Marc Miller announced caps on student visas, he indicated that each province would be responsible for allocating visas among its own institutions. All provinces will be required to provide students with a letter or certificate attached to their applications, indicating the institution that the student is to attend. This already

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February 6, 2024 2 Comments

How bad is it going to get in Ontario? Really Bad.

Last Friday, the Ontario government issued a media release outlining what it was going to do with respect to international students in the wake of the Government of Canada’s Monday announcement on study permits and work visas. I reproduce it substantially intact below because it is so objectively terrible. To protect the integrity of postsecondary education and promote employment in critical sectors like health care and the skilled trades, the government’s measures will include the following: Colleges and Universities Career

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January 30, 2024 7 Comments

What Comes Next

Many of you have asked me over the past couple of days regarding the potential impact of Monday’s announcement on study permits and post-graduate work visas. Nationally, I can only give you one certainty: because Master’s programs—all Master’s programs—lie outside the cap, everyone and their dog is going to try to load up on students taking expensive 8 month Master’s programs. Including private institutions—the model here will be Northeastern university, with its campuses in Vancouver and Toronto (quite near HESA

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January 24, 2024 2 Comments

The New International Student Regime

So, the feds finally moved on the whole student visa thing.  And…it’s big. What I’m writing about today comes from a combination of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) Minister Marc Miller’s announcement yesterday and information passed to me about the briefing IRCC gave to university and college association heads last Friday.  It’s as up-to-date as I can make it, which is not easy because not everything I heard today was consistent with I heard over the weekend (which suggests

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January 23, 2024 17 Comments

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