{ "docId": "019dd923-5de0-76bd-a16a-850abecd1878", "docSlug": "95a31671e0f8d848", "documentTitle": "First Steps into the Labour Market 2021 International survey of students and recent graduates", "authorId": "Deloitte", "authorName": "MPI", "documentKindSlug": "consulting-deck", "documentKindLabel": "Consulting deck", "sourceTypeSlug": "strategy_consulting", "sourceTypeLabel": "Strategy consulting", "presentationDate": null, "orientation": "portrait", "aspectRatio": 0.773, "pageNumber": 20, "pageCount": 28, "prevPage": 19, "nextPage": 21, "slideType": "appendix_disclosure", "function": "summarize", "density": "overcrowded", "nDataPoints": 0, "notes": "This slide is a text-heavy page from a report, likely part of an appendix or detailed analysis section.", "elementsJson": [ "paragraph", "footnote" ], "metadataConfidence": 0.9, "imagePath": null, "slideHref": "/slides/019dd923-5de0-76bd-a16a-850abecd1878/20", "deckHref": "/decks/019dd923-5de0-76bd-a16a-850abecd1878", "deckJsonHref": "/decks/019dd923-5de0-76bd-a16a-850abecd1878.json", "deckAnchorHref": "/decks/019dd923-5de0-76bd-a16a-850abecd1878#slide-20", "components": [ { "bbox": null, "kind": "callout", "text": "The use of policy levers of this type also reinforces the need for a strong, collective understanding of the role and ambition for international study within a particular country.", "attrs": null, "subkind": null, "toolName": "Visual emphasis", "toolSlug": "visual-emphasis", "confidence": null, "componentId": "019dd952-0494-7113-8aa3-80c4590e2dad", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.05, "w": 0.7, "x": 0.15, "y": 0.25 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "The policy tools outlined above can be used in combination. Some are more acceptable to education providers and guardians of the \"export\" sector than others, notably measures focused on increasing quality rather than limiting quantity.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "1cad6092-20db-4a80-a832-c6940fd21082", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.15, "w": 0.7, "x": 0.15, "y": 0.09 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "One of the challenges of imposing a cap is the need for adequate notice. Without time to plan, educational institutions find themselves with reduced budgets, having already spent on marketing and recruitment, and under pressure to cut staffing and facilities, which affects both the international and domestic student populations as well as future research and innovation investment. Universities have complained that caps cause significant disruption and result in a considerable economic hit, while reducing the future marketability of education in the country. The counterargument—that the scale of growth over the past decade should not have been counted upon to continue in the long term—has been less evident in public discourse.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "a3825780-4f2a-4495-9043-4e68df65ec1a", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.15, "w": 0.7, "x": 0.15, "y": 0.54 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "It is notable that while a number of key anglophone destinations are using these policy levers to reduce student numbers, the same policies are being used to expand demand for international study in other markets, both established and emerging. For example, in South Korea, a series of measures have been put in place to expand the education sector, including a reduction in financial requirements, an increase in permitted work while studying (amount of time and sectors), expansion of post-graduation working rights (in terms of length and sectors), and expanding scholarship programming.67", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "da8744dc-9447-466c-859a-0e416b9db729", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.22, "w": 0.7, "x": 0.15, "y": 0.31 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "But both sets of policy levers can be contentious. Ministries of the interior tasked with ensuring program integrity can find themselves at loggerheads with education providers and employers hoping to hire graduates. The specificity of the academic year also means that visa processing must be timely yet remain robust. Efforts to shape admissions through raising thresholds, meanwhile, can reinforce issues of inequity, where candidates from less wealthy countries may struggle to meet new requirements.65 The imposition of more hurdles—for students and institutions—can impede planning. Though key elements of new or stricter requirements can be outsourced to universities (such as testing applicants' language and educational capability), and agents can be looped in to facilitate the process, there is a danger that building a role for such intermediaries raises the risk of fraud.66", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "ed7a17bb-eac5-4327-ba1e-5291bc22bd6c", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.08, "w": 0.7, "x": 0.15, "y": 0.7 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "The use of policy levers of this type also reinforces the need for a strong, collective understanding of the role and ambition for international study within a particular country. For example, countries may wish to limit enrollment but expand international students' access to the labor market after graduation; some of the policy levers outlined above may achieve one goal, but inhibit the other.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "fb4fa5e3-a039-4ac0-8a22-3859ab175294", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.1, "w": 0.7, "x": 0.15, "y": 0.81 }, "kind": "source-note", "text": "65 For example, the UK Home Office exempts nationals from approximately 60 largely high-income countries from meeting financial self-sufficiency requirements. See UK Home Office, \"Financial Evidence for Student and Child Student Visa Applicants,\" updated January 2, 2025.\n66 A parliamentary inquiry in Australia found that unregulated agents were being paid by institutions to channel students to their courses. See Caitlin Cassidy, \"Australia's International Education System a 'Ponzi Scheme' with Agents Paid Bonuses to Lure Students,\" The Guardian, April 18, 2023.\n67 ICEF, \"South Korea on Track to Attract Thousands.\"", "attrs": { "numbered": true }, "subkind": null, "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "6e126b6a-3469-4f69-b587-3cfb2a6cd95f", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.03, "w": 0.7, "x": 0.15, "y": 0.03 }, "kind": "title", "text": "INTERNATIONAL STUDENT MOBILITY: A POST-PANDEMIC RESET OR A BROADER CHALLENGE?", "attrs": null, "subkind": "headline", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "b6e0ae19-6af8-4ac8-bfdb-df7afdb3053c", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null } ], "metrics": [], "tools": [], "frameworks": [], "arcBeats": [], "loops": [], "imagePathAlt": null, "thumbSrc": null, "thumbSrcAlt": null, "locked": true }