Half of permanent migrant Australian citizens are working below their skill level, despite living in a country where one in three industries are experiencing skills shortages, a new report says. The report, Billion Dollar Benefit: the economic impact of unlocking ...
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As of midnight Sunday, the Australian government increased the amount international students have to pay to apply for a student visa from $710 to $1600, a 125 per cent increase, without warning. In a statement released Monday morning, ministers said ...
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Deakin University vice-chancellor Iain Martin has stepped ahead of his colleagues and called for a blanket 35 per cent cap on the number of international students at all universities. Professor Martin said his proposal was better then the Albanese government’s ...
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The active COVID-19 situation combined with domestic and international border restrictions put the notion of a mass return of international students to public and private tertiary providers in considerable doubt and uncertainty. Commentary on the issue of international students has ...
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In October 2019, my colleague and I wrote a commentary in The Australian about the need for Australian universities to prepare and safeguard offshore students who are affected by political unrest. The recent outbreak of COVID-19 further exposes that many ...
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A curious feeling of dismay is exhibited by many educators when PISA scores are released that show Australia’s seemingly intractable steady decline against the OECD average, and against other countries in our region. A similar feeling of dismay is also ...
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When Ariana Grande sang that she had 99 problems, she likely didn’t have the state of international education in Australia in mind, but if she did, she’d be right. Here are three of our biggest problems: We only recruit significant ...
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