Early in the COVID-19 pandemic New South Wales received a lot of flak for seeming unwilling to help international students in the state, many of whom are now stranded. However, the NSW government is now introducing $20 million in concrete ...
More »The ‘quiet crisis’: how COVID-19 could be turning away our future researchers
The economic strain of COVID-19 is forcing 45 per cent of Australia’s best and brightest future researchers to consider disengaging from their PhD studies. A new study from The University of Sydney, titled 'The Quiet Crisis of PhDs and COVID-19: ...
More »The challenges involved in getting international students back on campus: opinion
International students are important for most universities worldwide, but the ongoing COVID-19 crisis will have an impact on the number of foreign students on campuses in the next academic year. Many institutions are expressing concerns about the decline in international ...
More »Continuity, contradiction or crash? Unknowns in the international student market
Anyone who tells you they know what is going to happen to Australia’s extraordinarily valuable international student market is having you on. They can’t know, because it will all depend on things that haven’t happened yet. We don’t know what will ...
More »New report reveals the exploitation of international students in Australia
A new report has found that more than three in four international students in Australia are being paid less than the minimum casual wage, and one in four said they were receiving less than half the minimum wage in their ...
More »Independent Tertiary Education sector calls for JobKeeper extension
Australia’s peak body for the independent tertiary education sector is urging the government to retain the JobKeeper initiative, saying it has played a critical role in securing the sector. The Independent Tertiary Council of Australia (ITECA) said the initiative has ...
More »China to expand its own university sector to the detriment of Australian universities
Following on from the Chinese Education Bureau recently warning Chinese students about racist incidents occurring at Australian universities, the world’s most populous country is now set on expanding its own university sector. This comes after Australian universities have increased their ...
More »Disrupting the international student sausage factory
Australians love sausages but we prefer not to know what goes into them. Australians love the jobs and revenue generated by international students but most have no idea about the process of having them enter the country, and what happens ...
More »The magnitude of COVID-19 on higher education: Opinion
The novel coronavirus outbreak has created chaos in all aspects of our conventional life. Though this is primarily a health crisis, it has severely affected all forms of businesses worldwide. Unemployment rates have been rising steeply, and it has created ...
More »Investment in university research is an investment in COVID-19 recovery: Universities Australia
The head of Universities Australia (UA) has urged the government to prioritise investment in university research, arguing it is critical to Australia’s economic and social development in the future. As sobering new modelling estimates “up to 38 per cent of ...
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