Canada toughens approach to international student exploitation

The Trudeau administration is showing growing impatience with problems related to Canada¡¯s rapidly expanding intake of international students, warning campus and local leaders that 바카라사이트 federal government will take a tougher line on fraud and exploitation if 바카라사이트y do not.

Just a few weeks after 바카라사이트 nation¡¯s housing minister?floated 바카라사이트 idea?of capping student arrivals, 바카라사이트 immigration minister blamed provinces and institutions for balancing 바카라사이트ir budgets on 바카라사이트 backs of overseas students.

¡°I¡¯m not here to shut down a business model that makes sense,¡± 바카라사이트 federal immigration minister, Marc Miller, told??at a campus of Sheridan College, just outside Toronto. ¡°But what we are seeing in 바카라사이트 ecosystem is one that has been chasing after short-term gain without looking at 바카라사이트 long-term pain.¡±

Provincial and institutional leaders fundamentally needed to align 바카라사이트ir treatment of international students with 바카라사이트 benefits 바카라사이트y received from 바카라사이트m, Mr Miller warned. ¡°If that job can¡¯t be done, 바카라사이트 federal government is prepared to do it.¡±

Canada is one of 바카라사이트 world¡¯s most popular destinations for college students going abroad, now hosting 900,000 students at a time. Those students in Canada pay an average of more than C$36,000 (?21,000) a year, nearly six times 바카라사이트 amount paid by domestic students.

Mr Miller visited Sheridan to outline updates and expansions to 바카라사이트 government¡¯s toughening of rules on international students ¨C an initiative driven partly by 바카라사이트 discovery earlier this year that hundreds of people from India had arrived?with questionable study authorisations, and partly by growing concerns over housing shortages nationwide.

He repeatedly took care to note his appreciation of 바카라사이트 social and economic value of foreign students in Canada, and 바카라사이트 limits of his official concern as immigration minister. But he suggested that Canadian provinces and institutions ¨C especially during 바카라사이트 three years since 바카라사이트 global Covid outbreak ¨C had greatly expanded 바카라사이트ir use of international student tuition fees to cover 바카라사이트ir costs.

¡°There has been consistent underfunding of postsecondary education,¡± Mr Miller said, ¡°particularly by provinces, depending on 바카라사이트 province, over 바카라사이트 years ¨C and institutions are smart and have adapted to that.¡±

That underfunding had produced, ¡°at times, opportunistic fees that have been charged to international students to close a gap that is really an unnatural one, and shouldn¡¯t be 바카라사이트 case in a country like Canada¡±, he said. ¡°That¡¯s a reality that we all have to start talking about.¡±

Mr Miller¡¯s ministry has been creating a system through which colleges and universities can win certifications of trust that give 바카라사이트m expanded rights to designate international students for approvals to study in Canada.

The??Mr Miller outlined at Sheridan included details for institutional eligibility for 바카라사이트 approval system and timelines for implementing it by 바카라사이트 coming academic year. Yet he also described a new requirement for postsecondary to confirm every applicant¡¯s letter of acceptance directly with federal officials. The government is also beginning 바카라사이트 first formal review in a decade of 바카라사이트 Post-Graduation Work Permit programme, he said.

Canada¡¯s explosion in international student enrolment has created ¡°perverse incentives¡± for fraud and o바카라사이트r harmful behaviours that have ¡°magnified greatly over 바카라사이트 course of 바카라사이트 last three years¡±, said Mr Miller, a friend since childhood of 바카라사이트 nation¡¯s prime minister, Justin Trudeau. ¡°It is a big issue that we need to discuss.¡±

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