Considered one of Ontario’s largest schools is suspending dozens of its full-time packages because the federal authorities reduces the variety of worldwide college students in Canada.
Centennial School says 49 packages won’t settle for new college students within the 2025-26 educational yr, together with 16 packages in its enterprise college, 14 packages in its media college and 7 packages in its engineering college.
School president and CEO Craig Stephenson says the establishment is adapting to adjustments within the federal authorities’s immigration coverage that led to a drop in worldwide scholar enrolments, which considerably impacted the school’s monetary standing.
Stephenson says reductions in employees are “unavoidable” amid this system suspensions however the faculty administration is making these adjustments to make sure its long-term sustainability.
Different schools throughout Ontario have additionally introduced program cuts in current months, together with Algonquin School that stated earlier this month it was closing its campus in Perth, Ont., and Sheridan School that stated in November it was suspending 40 packages.
The federal authorities introduced in September that it’s going to scale back the consumption cap on worldwide scholar research permits for this yr to 437,000 permits, down from the 2024 goal of 485,000.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Jan. 22, 2025.
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