The Market Monitor Digest (week 44/2024)

Canada: Canada slashes permanent residency targets by 21%

By The PIE News, Oct 24, 2024

The Canadian government has announced targets for its Immigration Levels Plan 2025-27, reducing its intake of permanent residents by over 20% next year.

China: IDP moves to deliver IELTS in China

By The PIE News, Oct 25, 2024

IDP is expanding its delivery of IELTS into China, going up against British Council to deliver the co-owned English language test in the biggest global market. The move, though in its early stages, will give IDP direct access to the IELTS market in China, valued at $380 million, 40% of the global IELTS market worth $1bn.

Germany & India: India’s dynamism meets Germany’s precision

By The Koala News, Oct 28, 2024

The potential of foreign students, and in particular the great potential of Indian students, is not yet being fully utilised. Only around a third of all foreign students stay in Germany for more than ten years after graduating. The Federal Employment Agency wants to make better use of the potential of students from India in order to combat the shortage of skilled labour in Germany.

Ireland: Ireland's ELT sector calls for government to review costs of new regulation framework

By Study Travel, Oct 30, 2024

Ireland’s English language sector is urging revision of the country’s new regulatory framework, while the largest industry association English Education Ireland (formerly MEI) announced a boycott of the scheme over costs to providers in its current format.

New Zealand: New Zealand’s full post-Covid recovery expected in 2025

By The PIE News, Oct 28, 2024

New Zealand’s international student numbers are forecasted to fully recover to pre-pandemic levels next year, according to new analysis. New Zealand saw an “extraordinary” 67% year-on-year recovery after experiencing the longest and most restrictive Covid policies of the English-speaking world, said Studymove managing director Keri Ramirez.

US & India: Sharp decrease in visas to Indian students alarms U.S. colleges

By The Chronicle of HE, Oct 28, 2024

India has been the engine of post-pandemic growth in international enrollments at American colleges, but the number of visas issued to Indian students plunged by a third this fall, according to a Chronicle analysis of S. Department of State data.

UAE & China: UAE records increase in China-based scholarship students

By Gulf News, Oct 30, 2024

• The UAE’s Scholarship Office has recorded increase in Emirati students opting to study in China. This increase reflects strong strategic relations and shared interests between the two countries and aims to support higher education and develop national talent.

UK: ‘New baseline’: UK overseas student enrolment ‘down 26 per cent’

By Times Higher Ed, Oct 24, 2024

Recruitment bounces back from 52 per cent drop seen in May, with suggestions that market is ‘recalibrating’ to levels last seen in 2022.

US: USA presidential election: potential impact on international education

By Studytravel Magazine, Oct 24, 2024

With less than two weeks to go until the USA goes to the polls in the presidential election, StudyTravel Magazine looks at policies and track records that could have an effect on the international education sector, views from the industry, and reports on how the outcome may affect student sentiment in this extended feature.