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Post-secondary education funding is mishandled

Peak Web May 18, 2026

By: Jonah Lazar, Staff Writer Studying in BC is more inaccessible than ever before, especially if you’re an international student. In 2024, federal limitations on study permits led to a 66% drop in permit approvals for international students. In 2023, 456,690 international student permits were granted federally; this number shrunk to just 50,370 for the first nine months of 2025. Post-secondary institutions should never have relied so much on the funding that comes from international students to begin with. Public funding for post-secondary education in BC has dropped 41% since 2000, and doesn’t look to be rising anytime soon —…

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