International Education-Impact on Urban Colleges

Government planners need to bring more international students into areas outside Metro Vancouver

By Carlito Pablo, February 2, 2012 Georgia Straight

As director of international education at Langara College, Gordon McNeil knows well that foreign students are important to B.C.’s economy.

So last fall, when Premier Christy Clark laid out an ambitious target of increasing the number of these visitors by 50 percent over four years, McNeil assumed that everyone would be excited to take them all in. International students were worth $1.2 billion to the economy in 2010. In these hard times, the province would probably welcome some more.

However, there’s a bit of a problem for Langara.

“We’re sort of scratching our heads: where are we going to put them?” McNeil told the Georgia Straight in a phone interview.

[full story, part of Eye on Education in BC series of articles]

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