The letter was signed by some 19 migrant Justice organisations and South Asian diaspora groups from across Canada. Signatories of the letter called for a “definite stop” to the deportations and said the students should not have to bear the burden of proof because of fraud committed by consultants and recruiters. “The burden of proof should not be on the students, the victims of the fraud,” the signatories said. “Receiving deportation orders and the precarity of having to live with a constant threat of being separated from their families and uprooted from their communities and the associated struggle and turmoil…

The Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada and the British Columbia Ministry are scrutinizing their international student programs following the release of new research.  The study, which surveyed over 1,300 BC international students, has prompted the authorities to assess the effectiveness of their programs and their impact on students’ future employment prospects, as per Financial Express report. The survey indicated that many international students in BC find that their Canadian education has minimal impact on their job prospects. Furthermore, they often end up in jobs unrelated to their field of study, especially in a province known for low rates of granting…

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann Tuesday said his government has a zero tolerance policy against unscrupulous immigration agents who dupe people by sending them abroad on fake documents. Apart from taking exemplary action, the state government will also start a major awareness drive on such agents, Mann said here. Mann also said necessary amendments will also be made in Punjab’s immigration law to ensure the severest action against them. Referring to the case of several Indian students in Canada who were duped by immigration agents, Mann said the students were sent on fake documents by the agents. The Chief Minister…

Jenny Francis, a geography faculty member at Langara College in Vancouver, has spent the last three years surveying students and studying the issue in British Columbia. “We’re really exploiting international students by bringing them in and not worrying what happens to them,” she told The PIE News in an interview. “For the colleges in British Columbia, it’s more money, more money, more money.” In her report, Francis pointed to data from Statistics Canada that showed only 30% of international students with a bachelor’s degree become permanent residents within 10 years of first obtaining a study permit. For her study, more…

Agency Dashboard for Monitoring Student Outcomes  – 04/07/2023PRISMS’ Agency Dashboard is a useful tool for education providers to monitor student outcomes for education agent facilitated enrolments. The Agency Dashboard is available under the Agent Management left side menu item in PRISMS.  PRISMS users with CoE Administrator role can access the Agency Dashboard. CoE Administrator users can request access permission to the agents reports from their “Change My Details” page in PRISMS. Requesting additional access generates an automatic email to the Registration Signatory Delegate (RSD) for your provider. You will be notified of the approval via email. The Agency Dashboard data is…

A group of backbench Conservative MPs is putting pressure on Rishi Sunak to further reduce immigration tied to the UK’s higher education sector. The “New Conservatives”, a group of “Red Wall” parliamentarians, published a report on 3 July which calls on the prime minister to take action to drastically reduce immigration, arguing that this is key to fulfilling the promises made in the party’s 2019 manifesto. The report, by Ipswich MP Tom Hunt, says that international students should be barred from attending the “poorest performing universities”, that post-study work visas should be scrapped, and that new restrictions on the students…

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The International Education Association of Australia (IEAA) has announced the impending rollout of the ‘Help Australia Thrive!’ campaign. This is a timely reminder that the International Education sector in Australia should be important to us all. In 2019, the sector delivered over $40 billion to the Australian economy and supported over 240,000 Australian jobs. Enrolment figures for 2023 show a strong post-COVID recovery. “International education isn’t a commodity. It supports communities and nurtures knowledge. International students pay their tuition, earn their qualifications and underpin outstanding research. They also help put food on our tables, care for our loved ones, and…

Most international students support limits on their working hours to protect them from unreasonable expectations, including from themselves, Australian research suggests. A survey of more than 6,000 people has found that the vast majority want restrictions on the number of hours overseas students can devote to paid work during term time. Just one in four international students, one in 10 foreign graduates and one in 20 educational administrators said they would prefer no cap. Australia has long imposed a 40-hour fortnightly limit on overseas students’ employment during study periods. The cap was relaxed and then abandoned altogether during the pandemic, with employers…