According to data released by Campus France, 443,500 international students were enrolled in French higher education in the past year, a 17% increase over five years, as per figures from the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research. The figure makes France’s goal of attracting half a million international students by 2027 appear more realistic, with international students now accounting for nearly 15% of the country’s student body. “Student mobility to France has found its cruising speed in an uncertain international context,” stated Donatienne Hissard, director general, Campus France. “There have never been so many mobile students worldwide, but their…

The following has been adapted from the opening plenary given by Editor in Chief Craig Riggs at the ICEF Monitor Global Summit in London, 12 September 2025.A year ago, in this very room, we looked at two macro trends that are shaping the international student market. One is the considerable and continuing demand-side growth – that is, the considerable growth in demand for study abroad and for access to education across markets worldwide.The other is the pushback on historically high levels of immigration in a number of the world’s leading study destinations, and the changing political culture around immigration in…

Speaking at the ECAA‘s 2025 Melbourne conference, Matthew Noble, assistant secretary temporary visas, Department of Home Affairs, detailed how recent policy changes and shifting demand are reshaping the international education landscape. Student visa lodgements fell to around 427,000 in 2024–25, down from nearly 600,000 the year prior. Refusal rates remained at around 18%, though this marks a slight improvement on last year. Declines in applications have been sharpest in VET and ELICOS, while higher education enrolments have lifted modestly beyond pre-pandemic levels. Top lodgement countries remained relatively stable with China, India and Nepal remaining the top three source countries for…

Permits for students from abroad to study in Canada plummeted in the first half of this year, with nearly 90,000 fewer issued than a year earlier.This comes after the federal government introduced a cap on international student visas in early 2024.Between January and June 2024, Canada issued 125,034 international study permits.Between January and June of this year, that fell to 36,417, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) told CBC News on Wednesday. IRCC provided figures for the first halves of 2024 and 2025.The number of applications for international student visas has also dropped. In the first half of 2025, the department received 302,795 applications,…

Australia’s far-right wasn’t just marching on 31 August — the National Socialist Network hijacked rallies nationwide, using them as displays of intimidation. Tom Tanuki reports. I HAVE SCOURED over video footage from all of the nationalist March for Australia rallies that were held nationwide on Sunday, 31 August. What I found was a coordinated pattern of crowd and media manipulation by the National Socialist Network (NSN) that was conducted via stacking speakers at rallies and rally coordinators, cladding small cells of uniformed NSN members with a larger plain-clothes supporter base to promote surrounding crowd support, deploying supplied, scripted chants and…

Germany is experiencing a booming influx of students from India. Latest figures from Destatis show that there are currently 59,419 Indian students enrolled in German higher education institutions, of whom 41,048 are men and 18,371 are women. In terms of disciplines the breakdown is as follows: Engineering: 35,858Law/Business/Social Sciences: 12,376Mathematics/Natural Sciences: 7,817Humanities: 1,031Medicine/Health: 629Agriculture: 1,217Arts: 380Sport: 72Other: 39 These figures highlight a dominant preference for engineering—over 60% of Indian enrolments—followed by strong representation in business, law, and the sciences. Broader trends confirm this momentum: for the winter semester 2023–24, around 49,483 Indian students were enrolled—up 15% year-on-year—and India had become…

Comparable dependence on international students: Many U.S. colleges and universities could be forced to close if they’re not able to enroll as many immigrants and international students, according to a National Foundation for American Policy report. That would mean fewer schools for American students and less employment opportunity for U.S. workers in towns with local universities. Data show a bleak picture without the foreign born. Current immigration policies, including toward international students, affect the future of U.S. higher education. “Without immigrants, international students and the children of immigrants, the undergraduate student population in America would be almost 5 million students…

With the Trump administration arguably being the example, with its substantive weakening of public and private institutions, reversing long standing efforts to improve equality, and the consistent coarse nature of public discourse, enabled by normally more responsible Republicans, business and others: …Other people, of course, don’t just cope; they rebel. That rebellion comes in two forms. The first is what I’ll call Christopher Rufo-style dismantling. Rufo is the right-wing activist who seeks to dismantle D.E.I. and other culturally progressive programs. I’m 23 years older than Rufo. When I was emerging from college, we conservatives thought we were conserving something —…

Header misleading. An increase yes of about 20 percent but still small numbers, only about .05 percent: More Americans applied for refugee status in Canada in the first half of 2025 than in all of 2024, and more than in any full year since 2019, according to data published on Thursday by Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board. Their share of total refugee claims – 245 of about 55,000 – is small and Canada’s acceptance of U.S. refugee claims has historically been low. Asylum-seekers from other countries crossing the land border from the U.S. are sent back under a bilateral agreement with the…