Difficulties in obtaining visas, residence permits, rising costs of plane tickets, probable “fortnight” because of the Covid-19: for foreign students wishing to come to France in September, the obstacles are numerous and risk to dissuade some. With 358,000 foreign students in 2019, France, the fifth host country in the world, is particularly exposed. “We are in the dark especially for non-Schengen students. We don't know when they can come ”, recognizes Jean-François Fiorina, Deputy Director General of the Grenoble School of Management. While business schools have between 25% and 50% foreign students, the latter usually receives 40%. Students who participate in the sometimes fragile financial balance of these institutions. Slightly less concerned, engineering schools have 15% to 30% foreigners, universities 15%. "We anticipate a decline and it is obvious that this will not do us
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