{"id":163598,"date":"2024-01-29T15:15:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T14:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=163598"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:27:09","slug":"canada-limits-intake-of-foreign-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2024\/01\/29\/canada-limits-intake-of-foreign-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada limits intake of foreign students"},"content":{"rendered":"

Due to a crisis in the housing market and pressure on healthcare, fewer foreign students will be allowed to come to Canada. The measure is to last two years, the government announced.<\/p>\n

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International students are enriching and part of the social, cultural and economic fabric of the country, the Canadian government emphasises. But there are currently too many of them, it believes.<\/p>\n

Recruitment of foreign students has become so profitable that it\u2019s being abused, says Marc Miller, Canadian minister of Immigration and Refugees. \u201cEnough is enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some education institutions are mainly looking to make a profit off the foreign students and don\u2019t provide good support, it says in a press release<\/a>. The government wants to protect these students from such \u2018bad actors\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\t

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