B.C. caps foreign post-secondary student enrolment

British Columbia’s authorities introduced caller guidelines for nationalist post-secondary acquisition institutions, capping nan number of world students astatine 30 per cent of their full enrolment.

In a statement, nan provincial Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills says nan caller limit is meant to make judge that “international student enrolment doesn’t strain an institution’s expertise “to supply due services.”

The ministry says nan caller guidelines telephone for nationalist universities and colleges to taxable world acquisition strategical plans to nan government, which nan state will show to make judge nan headdress is being followed.

Schools specified arsenic nan University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University and University of Victoria opportunity world student enrolment levels location do not transcend nan 30 per cent limit and nan alteration will not effect operations.

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Kwantlen Polytechnic University exceeded nan limit group for 2023-24 astatine 36 per cent, but officials opportunity nan schoolhouse twelvemonth started earlier nan national authorities capped world students astatine 360,000 this twelvemonth — a 35 per cent alteration from 2023.

The university’s vice-president Zena Mitchell says successful a connection that nan B.C. authorities guidelines aligned pinch their expectations.

The state says nan guidelines commencement this month, and schools are expected to travel into alignment complete nan coming year.

It B.C. authorities says nan headdress is besides meant “to thief guarantee that enrolment levels do not put unit connected section communities.”