Australian universities will see more international students on campus after the government scrapped a raft of COVID-19 restrictions last week. In a statement last week health minister Mark Butler announced that people entering Australia would no longer be required to ...

When international student Charlotte* chose to study at the University of Sydney, she did it for the prestige and the promise of a world class education, yet she feels like she has been treated as a “cash cow”.  For years ...

The international student market in Australia is potentially worth some $39.6 billion in revenue. It remains its fourth largest export industry[1]. While the industry has taken a battering due to COVID-19 it is still an important source of revenue for ...

How many ideas and exciting bottom-up attempts to do something radical and different in professional education, or using educational technology or pedagogy, or experimenting with admissions practices, have been pulled back by the barriers of a university manual of procedures ...

International students are returning to Australia’s shores, with just under 30,000 arriving in the past six weeks. Many of the students will be joining or rejoining the workforce, relieving pressure on small businesses that have struggled to find workers during ...

A new report from the Mitchell Institute at Victoria University shows international students are flocking to Canada, the US and the UK in record numbers, while Australia’s international student population has dropped by more than 50 per cent from pre-pandemic ...

On Friday the federal government released on its 10-year strategy for international education, hoping to position the country for a robust pandemic recovery and “create new opportunities” to foster a more diverse and sustainable sector. Called the Australian strategy for ...

Eligible international students will be able to re-enter Australia from December 1 this year after enduring nearly two years of closed borders due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but some of the sector’s peak bodies warn that returning to pre-pandemic enrolment ...

Academic freedom remains a matter of concern for academics throughout Australia and beyond, however this needs to be put in context when considered in the international arena. Yojana Sharma (2021) recently remarked upon a survey of some 200 Singaporean academics ...

In a recent article published in The Conversation, Dr Peter Hurley from the Mitchell Institute argued that Australia’s international student “crisis” in higher education would continue to linger long after our borders open en masse, citing the problem of the ...