Nearly 50,000 international students failed to enrol in March, April last year

Globe and Mail reporter Marie Woolf writes that nearly 50,000 international students who received study permits failed to enrol at Canadian postsecondary institutions in March and April 2024. The PIE reports that these non-compliant students most commonly came from countries such as India (19,582), China (4,279), Nigeria (3,902), or Ghana (2,712); the Globe indicated that—by percentage—the greatest non-compliance rates were seen from origin countries such as Burundi (49%), Rwanda (48.1%), and Chad (44.6%). Additionally, Woolf reports that institutions did not report on the status of 3.3% (23,514) of those who received study permits.