Ontario’s private providers grapple with international study permits allocation
"We will not take this lying down" - that was the message from Ontario's private language schools regarding the province's study permit allocation announcement.
"We will not take this lying down" - that was the message from Ontario's private language schools regarding the province's study permit allocation announcement.
In Canada, IRCC has intercepted the plans of public-private partnerships with summer intakes who set out to enrol as many students as possible before the PGWP eligibility is taken away.
Ontario is expected to give 96% of its allocated study permit applications to public colleges and universities, as a result of the cap requirement handed down to provinces from federal government.
Canada's new international study visa cap will damage diversity in higher education, as institutions will disproportionately rely on students from countries with high visa conversion rates to mitigate falling numbers of international students.
The Canadian government has revised the number of new international study visas for this year to 292,000, saying that the initial limit of 360,000 accounted for cap-exempt groups including school and masters students.
Two weeks after Ontario announced $1.3 billion funding boost designed to stabilise the province's colleges and universities, opposition politicians have said that the sector's financial stability is still as risk.
With close to 12,000 Mexican students studying English or French in Canada in 2022, the reinstatement of a visa requirement for many Mexican nationals has some in the language education sector concerned.
Nova Scotia has been allocated 12,900 study permit applications for the next academic year, with 60% expected to be approved based on previous issuance rates.