1 country for foreign students Analysis: Some higher-education specialists are skeptical about Ottawa’s increasingly eye-catching efforts to lure international students. Higher education experts question why Canada appears to be the only nation that has given foreign students social-assistance payments during COVID. Article content Foreign students make up about 20 per cent post-secondary students in Canada, which along with Australia and Britain, has the highest ratios in the world. Simon Fraser University has almost 7,000 foreign students, 26 per cent of undergrads and 34 per cent of grad students. Article content Canada began allowing study-visa holders into the country in October 2020, despite the border being then shut to almost everyone except essential workers.

Source: Daily Sun November 28, 2021 19:43 UTC