Concerns about shrinking enrolment of international students in Atlantic universities

Some Atlantic universities are voicing concerns about shrinking enrolment of international students, saying Nova Scotia has sent far fewer attestation letters to Ottawa for the upcoming school year compared to last year. Provinces are required to send an attestation letter to notify the federal government that a student has been accepted to a post-secondary institution and should receive a student visa. Nova Scotia has so far accepted less than four-thousand international students for the upcoming year, down from last year’s 19-thousand, nine-hundred foreign students.  The President of the Association of Atlantic Universities says his group’s members are worried about what the enrolment caps will mean for their finances and the diversity of their student bodies.