Budget kürzt internationale Studentengenehmigungen bis 2026 um 65 Prozent – Universitätsangelegenheiten
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/budget-cuts-international-student-permits-by-65-per-cent-in-2026/
Budget kürzt internationale Studentengenehmigungen bis 2026 um 65 Prozent – Universitätsangelegenheiten
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/budget-cuts-international-student-permits-by-65-per-cent-in-2026/
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I have a mixed take and I am interested to see how others talk about this.
I think it is important that we really address the fraud going on within immigration and the various pathways into this nation.
We’ve seen horrendous exploitation and abuse of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program/LMIA, International Student Program, and other federal and provincial programs.
I still think we aren’t seeing a fundamental addressing though of the business lobbies influence in this space.
There is still the large dynamic that we allowed the business lobbies so much power in our system in order to have access to cheap exploitable labour and that really is something we need to address at the roots.
International students basically subsidizes our post-secondary institutions. I anticipate program cuts will be made by universities and colleges across the country.
The feds/provincial governments will either step up funding to fill the gaps left by international students – or we watch the quality of our post-sec diminish over the next couple of years. That is, after they stop blaming each other.
I’m not sure I really buy the argument that this volume of foreign students was required to offset shortfalls in provincial funding.
Typically colleges like Fanshawe don’t build new campuses when they’re *just scraping by*. It is profit-seeking behaviour.
I’d be curious to see the administrative bloat in costs since these schools began ratcheting up foreign student enrolment. Of course they’ll need to cut costs; their spending has gone up dramatically as well.
Are they hedging their bets for when their housing policies fail and they can’t get money out of the door?
Seems misguided considering that the education sector that they’re demolishing with these measures contributes more to the GDP than the auto industry.
I expect it will be a very short time until the industry they’re pumping with tax cuts is begging the government for immigration increases to prevent a labour shortage.
This is a choice. It’s probably going to cause some institutions to be more selective. It’s probably going to weed out some diploma mills.
However, education is really an export industry in Canada. When done right, people come and buy it from us. Therefore we make money. It also increases the pool of potentially available talent. Institutions should be responsible for considering housing availability in the equation but other than that there is no downside to international students in credible institutions.