Market intelligence for international student recruitment from ICEF

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Canadian immigration minister releases official cap figures and targets for 2024

In many respects, the implementation of Canada’s newly established cap on international student enrolment has been shrouded in secrecy these last few months. Some of...

Australia: Record-high foreign enrolment but tighter immigration settings now taking hold

The Australian government has further increased its scrutiny of international student applicants in an effort to ensure incoming students have “genuine” intentions to study (rather...

Business school survey again signals declining non-EU enrolment in UK

The most recent survey from the Chartered Association of Business Schools in the UK reveals that, “International student enrolments have significantly declined in UK business...

US study visa refusals reached record levels in 2023

More than a third of prospective international students applying to study in the US last year were turned away. The F-1 visa refusal rate surged...

Canada: More provincial cap numbers announced; IRCC moves up end date for post-graduate work for partnership programmes

Since the Canadian government’s announcement in January that it would be capping the number of new study permits issued to international students in 2024 and...

Canada: Ontario’s cap implementation plan allocates nearly all study permit applications to public colleges and universities

On 26 February 2024, the Government of Ontario – Canada’s most-populous province and host to just over half of the country’s foreign students – announced additional funding...

New Zealand’s international enrolment continued to recover in 2023

New Zealand’s international education sector welcomed significantly more students in 2023 than in 2022, according to data released by Education New Zealand and announced last...

Irish ELT sector continues to exceed pre-pandemic levels of business

The Irish English-language sector continues to expand, with business in 2023 once again surpassing performance before the pandemic, according to Marketing English in Ireland (MEI),...

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