For 2025, the intake cap of international students will decrease by 10% from this year’s levels, and that limit will be maintained through 2026. That represents a 36% decline from the 2023 numbers. However, Universities Canada has warned the country is currently on track to undershoot this year’s target as fewer foreign students are applying.
Student Visas to Drop 10% in 2025 as Canada Curbs Migration (msn.com)
The UK has seen a drop in foreign student enrollment at UK universities. Norway ended its tuition free program for non-EU nationals, starting in late 2023. Until last year, even U.S. students could study at universities in Norway and receive a free education. Now, that program will extend only to students from other EU area countries. Germany and Iceland still offer what is basically free tuition, even to U.S. students studying at those universities.
- International students to return in smaller numbers to UK universities (ft.com)
- Australia caps international student enrollment (insidehighered.com)
- Here’s how the Dutch plan to restrict foreign student numbers (dutchreview.com)
- Norway Abolishes Free University Education For People Outside Of EU/EEA – The Norway Guide
- European governments are targeting international students to curb surging immigration—but it’s costing universities billions | Fortune Europe
Something is a foot – we are seeing pushbacks on globalization – from increasing tariffs, the U.S. ban on TikTok, the proposed ban on DJI and Autel drones, to dramatic cutbacks in foreign student enrollment at universities.
Canada, Australia, the U.S. and the U.K. were among the largest destinations for foreign student enrollment perhaps in part because of the desire to learn and become proficient in English.
Today we seem to be watching the gradual end of globalization, which suggests that the reasons given in the past, for globalization, were probably a lie. There is something else behind this but what?