An Island mentality

Are asylum concerns “killing” international education?

A reported "blunder" by immigration minister Chris Evans last week has fuelled concerns that international education may be getting caught up in the asylum-seeker debate. Evans found himself the subject of media headlines when he told what he thought was a closed meeting at the University of NSW that the immigration debate was "killing the government", Evans reportedly made the comment in response to a question from the floor, after he'd given the opening address at the Harvard-UNSW conference, 'Citizenship in a globalised world: perspectives from the immigrant democracies'. The conference...