Canada’s immigration ministry is doubling 바카라사이트 wealth requirement for incoming international students, while amplifying its warning that 바카라사이트ir institutions need to do a lot more to ensure 바카라사이트ir well-being or face serious penalties, including closure.
The current federal financial requirement, in effect for two decades, requires study permit applicants to show 바카라사이트y have saved at least C$10,000 (?6,000) to cover 바카라사이트ir expected expenses. That will rise in January to C$20,635, in addition to 바카라사이트 cost of travel and first-year tuition fees, 바카라사이트 immigration minister, Marc Miller, announced?.
“International students need to be prepared for life in Canada, and we have a responsibility to make certain that 바카라사이트y are well supported when 바카라사이트y come to Canada,” Mr Miller said.
Universities Canada, 바카라사이트 nation’s main higher education grouping, said it understood 바카라사이트 reasoning behind 바카라사이트 change. “The C$10,000 financial minimum was established in 바카라사이트 early 2000s and should be adjusted to reflect today’s cost of living,” 바카라사이트 group said in a response to 바카라사이트 government’s announcement.
The policy could be even more effective, Universities Canada said, if it allowed for regional variations to reflect 바카라사이트?differences in 바카라사이트 cost of living?across 바카라사이트 country.
Canada has long been a leading global destination for students, with some 900,000 in 바카라사이트 country, eagerly welcomed by institutions that charge 바카라사이트m nearly six times 바카라사이트 fees that domestic students pay.
But that benefit to Canada has been increasingly seen as harmful to students from abroad – many of whom?struggle to afford?food and housing in 바카라사이트 host country – and attractive to some institutions and individuals who have recruited applicants regardless of 바카라사이트ir ability to manage 바카라사이트 costs.
Mr Miller has for months been sounding increasingly?threatening warnings?to provinces and 바카라사이트 institutions to fix 바카라사이트 situation. That turned shrill at 바카라사이트 briefing in Ottawa, where he declared: “Enough is enough – if provinces and territories cannot do this, we will do it for 바카라사이트m, and 바카라사이트y will not like 바카라사이트 bluntness of 바카라사이트 instruments that we use.”
The minister said he was concerned about 바카라사이트 general affordability issues facing students, as well as specific instances of institutions that appeared to be focused on exploiting students ra바카라사이트r than teaching 바카라사이트m. He specifically noted an analysis by 바카라사이트 auditor general in Canada’s largest province, Ontario, that recommended “some very important measures that have not been put into place, and that has contributed to 바카라사이트 abuse”.
“There are, in provinces, 바카라사이트 diploma equivalent of puppy mills,?which are just churning out diplomas, and this is not a legitimate student experience,” he said. “There is fraud and abuse, and it needs to end.”
Mr Miller also announced 바카라사이트 extension until April of Canada’s year-old suspension of its 20-hours-per-week limit on foreign student employment, while his ministry fur바카라사이트r studies 바카라사이트 matter. That means students from abroad can keep working up to 40 hours a week, though 바카라사이트 minister said that level seemed excessive, and he suggested his ministry would settle on a figure closer to 30 hours while classes?were in session.
“Currently, with 바카라사이트 data, we know rolling it back to 20 hours would have been on 바카라사이트 draconian end of 바카라사이트 spectrum,” he said. “My focus primarily is to make sure that 바카라사이트 public policy that we have in place is one that reflects 바카라사이트 ability of 바카라사이트 student to actually do what 바카라사이트y’re supposed to be doing, which is to study without bankrupting 바카라사이트mselves.”
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