Education Choice Dept: Ontario is taking steps to become the destination of choice for international students by protecting the excellence of its post secondary education and making it easier for international PhD students to stay in the province. The province intends to introduce amendments to the Post Secondary Education Choice and Excellence Act that would, if passed, allow the government to better protect students and safeguard the quality of post secondary education in Ontario. The amendments would strengthen the province's ability to shut down unscrupulous and unauthorized educational organizations and prevent them from taking advantage of International and Ontario students. Changes have also been made to the Opportunities Ontario: Provincial Nominee Program to make it easier for highly skilled Ontario trained international PhD graduates to stay in the province. These graduates will no longer need an offer of employment to apply to the program to be fast tracked for permanent residence. These changes support the Ontario government's five year Open Ontario plan to build a stronger economy by creating new opportunities in our schools, colleges, universities and trades. As part of this plan, the government will aggressively promote Ontario's postsecondary schools abroad and increase international enrolment by 50 per cent while guaranteeing spaces for qualified Ontario students. As
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