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style="">The reported rates of decline were highest in Canada, UK</div> <div class="byline-country botmar12">Nathan M Greenfield</div> In an inaugural benchmark survey of universities across 66 countries, 41% of responding universities reported a decline in postgraduate international student enrolment, while 31% reported a decline in undergraduate international enrolees – and the most common reason cited was restrictive government policies and-or problems obtaining visas. </td> <td style="width:357px" valign="top"> <img src="https://www.universityworldnews.com/images/articles/20241115144000602_5.jpg?r=216393401" style="float:right;width:357px;padding-left:8px;padding-top:3px" alt="PHOTO"> </td></tr></table> </div> </div> </td> </tr></tbody></table> </div><div style="" class="botmar12 bordertopgrey padtop8 botmar8"> <table><tbody><tr> <td style="width:33%" class="padright8" valign="top"> <div class="article-brief"> <div class=""> <img 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While the specifics are hard to predict, all indicators point to reduced backing for science, especially global science, and less support for international academic exchange. </td> <td style="width:357px" valign="top"> <img src="https://www.universityworldnews.com/images/articles/20241113122214630_5.jpg" style="float:right;width:357px;padding-left:8px;padding-top:3px" alt="PHOTO"> </td></tr></table> </div> </div> </td> </tr></tbody></table> </div><div style="" class="botmar12 bordertopgrey padtop8 botmar8"> <table><tbody><tr> <td style="width:33%" class="padright8" valign="top"> <div class="article-brief"> <div class=""> <img src="https://www.universityworldnews.com/images/articles/20241111104741762_5.jpg" style="float:left;width:100%;margin-bottom:8px;;" alt="PHOTO"> <div class="byline-country countries">CHILE</div> <div class="botmar4"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241111104741762" style="color:#000;" class="">Lessons from a post-marketised higher education sector</a></h1></div> <div 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class="byline-country botmar2">Karen MacGregor</div> </div> </div> </td> </tr></tbody></table> </div><div style="" class="botmar12 bordertopgrey padtop8 botmar8"> <table><tbody><tr> <td style="width:50%" class="padright8" valign="top"> <div class="article-brief"> <div class=""> <div class="byline-country countries">AFRICA</div> <div class="botmar4"><h1><a href="post.php?story=20241107071208990" style="color:#000;" class="">Africa’s publishing landscape in urgent need of collaboration</a></h1></div> <div class="byline-country botmar12">Elias Ngalame</div> <img src="https://www.universityworldnews.com/images/articles/20241107071208990_5.jpg" style="float:left;height:112px;padding-right:8px;padding-top:3px" alt="PHOTO"> Stronger collaboration in Africa’s publishing industry, including the higher education sector, is a matter of urgency, was a message from the recent Business of Books Conference in Zimbabwe. 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