One in all Ontario’s largest faculties is suspending dozens of its full-time packages because the federal authorities reduces the variety of worldwide college students in Canada.
One in all Ontario’s largest faculties 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 tutorial yr, together with 16 packages in its enterprise faculty, 14 packages in its media faculty and 7 packages in its engineering faculty.
School president and CEO Craig Stephenson says the establishment is adapting to modifications within the federal authorities’s immigration coverage that led to a drop in worldwide scholar enrolments, which considerably impacted the faculty’s monetary standing.
Stephenson says reductions in workers are “unavoidable” amid this system suspensions however the school administration is making these modifications to make sure its long-term sustainability.
Different faculties throughout Ontario have additionally introduced program cuts in latest 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’ll cut back the consumption cap on worldwide scholar examine 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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