This Month
Crackdown on overseas students triggers rise in refugee applications
A big spike in applications for refugee status is being explained by the federal government’s attempts to cut the number of overseas students in the country.
- Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- Jason Clare
Private colleges ‘collateral damage’ of migration changes
Alana Anderson’s business might have won exporter of the year for the NT but nothing is going to save her from the government’s migration agenda.
- Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- Immigration
‘Careful what you wish for’: The hidden hit in foreign student caps
Foreign student enrolments in Canada plunged far more than expected after the government capped visas, in a salutary tale for Australia.
- Julie Hare
Foreign student crackdown is ‘economic self-sabotage’: uni chiefs
The policy change is over-reach, interventionist, Draconian and probably unworkable, scores of experts told a a Senate inquiry.
- Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- University Of Sydney
Unis to be capped at 40pc overseas students
The federal government will limit universities to 40 per cent international enrolments and bring numbers back to 2019 levels.
- Julie Hare
Telling overseas students what they can study is ‘pointless’
Dictating what overseas students can and cannot study to help Australia’s skills profile achieves little because 84 per cent of them go home, ANU analysis says.
- Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- Accommodation
Brookfield eyes $2b student beds portfolio
Canadian giant Brookfield spies opportunity for expansion in the sector, despite looming disruption from government caps on foreign student enrolments.
- Nick Lenaghan
Allan urged to resist foreign student crackdown ahead of India trip
Melbourne University has urged the Victorian premier to push back against the federal government’s crackdown on international students ahead of her trip next month.
- Gus McCubbing
Vacancy rates show overseas students being scapegoated: unis
New analysis shows locals in Australia’s three biggest cities have a better chance of finding an apartment in suburbs with large international student populations.
- Julie Hare
July
Caps on overseas students are unworkable, ‘ridiculous’
The government’s own departments reckon putting caps on international students and what they can enrol in will be a bureaucratic nightmare.
- Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- Education
Visa crackdown halves student numbers from India, Nepal, Philippines
The odds are stacking up against potential students from some major source countries as the number of approved visas slumps.
- Julie Hare
- Opinion
- Immigration
Slashing foreign student numbers would be economic self-harm
Before the government puts the squeeze on Australia’s $48 billion university export industry, it should consider how much GDP it is prepared to sacrifice.
- Bran Black
Overseas students cap will protect integrity of universities: Varghese
While the university sector reels from a raft of measures designed to limit net migration, there is growing support for caps on overseas student numbers.
- Julie Hare
Foreign student visa fees doubled to highest in the world
Without warning, student visa application fees surged from $710 to $1600, in a move Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil said would ‘clean up’ the sector.
- Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- Education
Teal MPs seek softening of foreign student cap laws
Legislation to cap the number of international students will be debated this week – even as visa numbers are in dramatic decline.
- Julie Hare
June
How Trump’s Green Card promise could disrupt Australian unis
Donald Trump wants international students to stay in the US after graduation and while his campaign insists this is a qualified promise, it will interest many.
- Julie Hare
Online lectures at double speed: what uni is really like in 2024
Domestic students are being held back and international students aren’t getting what they need, says one expert. Universities know this. Why aren’t they doing more?
- Gus McCubbing and Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- Research
‘Very wealthy’ unis ‘disingenuous’ about foreign student fees
Universities are richer than they claim and spend less of their overseas student revenue on research than they say.
- Julie Hare
Set an ATAR-style uni entrance score for foreign students: Rizvi
If international students had to get a minimum grade to win a place – as domestic applicants already have to – fewer would be able to rort the visa system.
- Julie Hare
Employee-starved businesses likely to bypass migrant caps: report
Businesses are likely to recruit workers from New Zealand and working holidaymakers, a major report says, avoiding moves by Labor and the Coalition to cut Australia’s permanent skilled migration intake.
- Tom McIlroy and Julie Hare
