The Market Monitor Digest (week 46/2026)
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International Education
Canada: Canada extends 150,000 international student arrivals target to 2029
By The Pie News, Nov 06, 2026
Canada will maintain its target of 150,000 new international student arrivals annually through 2029, extending the target set out in last year’s immigration plan.
Canada & EU: Canada and EU include student mobility in alliance agreement
By Study Travel Magazine, Nov 05, 2026
The European Union and Canada have agreed to facilitate Canadian participation in the Erasmus+ mobility scheme and expand working holiday participation in the new Alliance for the Future launched at a summit in Montreal last week.
Global: Global agent survey provides an early indication of how international student markets are taking shape this year
By ICEF Monitor, Nov 05, 2026
Agents’ responses point to continuing demand for study abroad. However, given volatile policy settings and compliance regimes in the Big Four, agents’ confidence that student numbers will increase is lower than in previous years of the survey. Agents say they need fast, accurate, clear responses from institutions more than ever amid this stricter regulatory context.
Southeast Asia & UK: ASEAN-UK higher education partnerships must reflect local priorities
By The Pie News, Nov 10, 2026
ASEAN and UK higher education leaders have called for more locally driven partnerships, backed by clear regulation and funding, as universities look to deepen collaboration on skills and research.
China: Global PBSA leaders outline China’s new student-centric era
By The Pie News, Nov 10, 2026
The global international student housing and education sectors stand at a critical inflection point, marked by a structural shift from supply shortages to an oversupplied market in key university hubs.
Japan: Japanese agency association JAOS releases landmark data report and recommendations on study abroad
By Study Travel Magazine, Nov 12, 2026
A new multifaceted analysis of Japanese outbound student mobility and global education trends has been released by agency association JAOS, highlighting the uneven recovery across various segments of study abroad, inequalities in the decision-making process and recommendations for stakeholders to boost study abroad ratios and success.
UK: UK student visa application numbers fall 31 per cent in October
By Times Higher Education, Nov 12, 2026
Dramatic decrease in number of applicants brings overall yearly drop-off to 20 per cent, deepening sector finance worries.
Australia: Migration is essential to education and the Australian way of life
By The Pie News, Nov 12, 2026
Australia has spent decades building an extraordinary capacity to bring some of the greatest talent from around the world to our shores. The current debate over migration – and by extension, international education – risks reducing that achievement to numbers, visas, revenue and housing, when arguably its deepest value is the multicultural society and invaluable global connections those flows create.
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