The PIE News

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

International student numbers in Australia could be capped under a government plan to cut migration numbers, according to local media reports. In the year up to June 2023, 590,304 student visa applications were lodged, with India accounting for 109,676 and China for 95,561, government statistics show.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Students are already reacting to media reports that Australia could place a cap on international student numbers, in addition to a proposed tax on overseas scholars. “Oh here we go again! ” one student said, while other asked where the analysis that led to this strange policy suggestion was.

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The PIE News

MAY 13, 2024

Some stakeholders have welcomed the idea of a “soft” cap on international student enrolment, but warned the Australian government not to “risk” the country’s international education market. He noted that the government is trying to have a more “calibrated, nuanced response” to numbers and “moderate the growth over time”.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 26, 2024

Some stakeholders say news of a cap will discourage students from choosing Canada as a study destination and will not address “real issues” in Canada’s immigration system or housing market. Many agreed that Indian students are likely to opt for other study alternatives in the short term.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 29, 2023

Canada is expecting to host 900,000 international students this year, its immigration minister has detailed, meaning the country is approaching the total number of international students in the world’s most popular study destination, the US. It would not only be intellectually lazy but also false,” Miller told CBC.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The UK is in the midst of a housing crisis as student numbers grow. At the start of the 2021/22 academic year, universities including Glasgow warned international students that accommodation wouldn’t be guaranteed. Russell Group universities including Manchester and Durham even paid students to defer.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Stakeholders are urging government to not introduce new policy to counter challenges around housing and net migration that will deeply impact the sector, especially as the sector remains in its recovery phase. Canberra is due to reveal new immigration policies later this month.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The UK government must review higher education funding so that institutions can “plan for the long-term and set sustainable funding and delivery models”, a new report has said. It is based on evidence from students, university leaders, ministers, representative bodies, the Quality Assurance Agency, as well as the OfS itself.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Fees from international students are forecast to become up to 66% of all course fee income for 70 higher education institutions across England & Northern Ireland by 2026/27, new research shows. Up to 80% of providers could fall into deficit if there is a gradual or sudden drop in international students in coming years.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

As the wave of international students into Canada continues to surge, with a staggering 31% year-over-year increase, the pressure on our nation’s infrastructure has become a central concern. Our primary goal remains to ensure these students can not only reside but thrive in their new environment.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

A group of university chairs in the Netherlands has called for figures in parliament to stop attacking international students and the prospect of their recruitment. The letter , written in the popular daily newspaper NRC, describes that an onslaught on international student recruitment will only help to “increase national labour shortages”.

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The PIE News

JULY 12, 2023

Statistics released by UCAS today have revealed that the total number of international applicants to UK universities has increased to 138,050 in 2023, from 134,870 last year, equivalent to a 2.4% rise, but domestic student applications have dropped. Numbers of EU student applications have however continued to drop.

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The PIE News

MARCH 5, 2024

International language students in Canada will not be exempt from the country’s study visa caps, and it is not beyond the government’s thinking to “consider controlling the secondary school space”, minister of immigration Marc Miller told the Languages Canada 2024 conference last week. That is perhaps the next step,” said the minister.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The head of the organisation representing language schools in Canada has called the decision to include some of their students in the international student cap “unconscionable”. The move , which will last for two years to try and bring numbers back down to 2022 levels, has garnered polarising reactions from across the sector.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 26, 2024

Following the federal government’s announcement that it will reduce new study permits by 35% for the next two years, ending access to post-graduation work permits for students at public-private partnership institutions and introducing an attestation letter requirement, stakeholders have said the measures are too broad.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Even as we fixate on headline news, the true drivers of transformation occur out of sight. Hyperbolic and apocalyptic headlines to the contrary, the news isn’t all bad. Students are completing college on time at higher rates nationally at two- and four-year institutions. The number of part-time adjuncts has fallen sharply.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The higher education landscape is facing unprecedented changes, with student demographics shifting and financial pressures mounting. These changes are reshaping how colleges and universities must embrace an adaptive approach to student recruitment and retention.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 28, 2023

If there’s one thing politicians love to talk about, it’s how valuable international students are to their country – how much they contribute to the economy, how important they are for the future workforce and the diversity they bring to universities and colleges. Be warned, if you’re looking for logic behind the policies – there isn’t any.

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SRHE

JULY 11, 2022

Boris Johnson had Churchillian aspirations, and it was Churchill who supposedly first said in the 1940s: “never let a good crisis go to waste”, in the context of the formation of the United Nations. First, take stock of the damage to the machinery of government, both in the Department for Education and the Office for Students.

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