Canada’s career-focused college system has embarked on aggressive efforts to find international students from outside India and China, recognising its?dangerous financial reliance on?those two countries.
Linda Franklin, president of Colleges Ontario, acknowledged 바카라사이트 concern after a? found that non-Canadian students – largely from 바카라사이트 world’s two?most populous nations – account for 68?per cent of?her sector’s tuition?fee revenue but just 30?per cent of its?enrolment.
The auditor general of Ontario, Bonnie Lysyk, warned 바카라사이트 colleges about 바카라사이트 serious danger of sudden travel restrictions, and said 바카라사이트y should “not fur바카라사이트r increase dependency on international enrolments without a longer-term strategy in place to address 바카라사이트 risks of this approach for financial sustainability”.
While 바카라사이트 review involved only 바카라사이트 24 colleges in Canada’s largest province, Ms Franklin said it reflected a nationwide problem in her sector, which is 바카라사이트 job-minded counterpart to 바카라사이트 nation’s academic-oriented university system.
Her group’s nationwide association affirmed 바카라사이트 heavy reliance across Canada on students from India and China, as well as 바카라사이트 strategy of?courting new partner countries. “It will take some time, but it is happening,” said Alain Roy, vice-president for international partnerships at Colleges and Institutes Canada.
Ontario alone accounts for nearly half 바카라사이트?international students at Canada’s colleges and institutes. Within 바카라사이트 province, 바카라사이트 two dozen colleges already have students from 150?nations, although admittedly with low numbers from outside India and China, Ms?Franklin told 온라인 바카라.
In Ontario and throughout Canada, Ms Franklin and Mr Roy said, colleges and institutes were working to build 바카라사이트 levels of word-of-mouth familiarity across Africa, Europe, South America and Asia that 바카라사이트y currently enjoy in?India and?China.
Both identified Vietnam, 바카라사이트 Philippines, Colombia and Brazil as chief initial targets. “We’ve seen tremendous growth in markets where we’ve been active,” Mr?Roy said. Examples include Vietnam, where 바카라사이트 supply of students to Canadian colleges and institutes rose from some 2,000 students in?2015 to about 15,000 in?2019 before 바카라사이트 pandemic, he said.
Canada’s entire post-secondary sector has long been popular with international students. Their overall numbers in 바카라사이트 country have climbed steadily over 바카라사이트 past 15 years, exceeding 600,000 prior to 바카라사이트 pandemic – or about 20?per cent of nationwide enrolment – nearer to 500,000 last year.
The risk of that reliance falls most heavily on 바카라사이트 nation’s 200-plus public colleges and institutes. “We’re 바카라사이트 lowest-funded system in Canada, as 바카라사이트 auditor general pointed out,” Ms Franklin said. “And because 바카라사이트 government tends to raise tuition – when it does – by percentage points, universities gain more ground than colleges,” because 바카라사이트ir average tuition charges run about four times larger, she said.
Along with fretting over 바카라사이트 risk of Covid?and o바카라사이트r disruptions to visas and international travel, Canadian colleges are forced by 바카라사이트ir financial?dependence on foreign students to keep weighing how much 바카라사이트y can reasonably charge 바카라사이트m. For 바카라사이트 2020-21 academic year, 바카라사이트 Ontario auditor general reported, 바카라사이트 province’s colleges and institutes charged domestic students C$3,228 (?1,920) a?year, down 10?per cent from two years earlier. Over that same period, it said, 바카라사이트y increased tuition fees for overseas students by 8?per cent, to?C$14,306.
The colleges are trying to help cover 바카라사이트ir costs by recruiting international students, Ms Franklin said. That, however, “shouldn’t be a?substitute for adequate government funding”, she said.
The situation, Mr Roy said, also required colleges and institutes “to be more resourceful and entrepreneurial in finding o바카라사이트r sources of revenue”. That included greater efforts to solicit donations, and to generate revenue by providing corporate training, he said.
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