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 ...
More »Why the international education crisis will linger long after students return to Australia
A series of recent announcements about Australia’s borders reopening mean there is hope of an end to the crisis in our international education sector. But there is still a long way to go. Over 145,000 international student visa holders are ...
More »Uni profits plummet by $1.6bn to $669 million in 2020
A new report from the Mitchell Institute finds that Australian university profits took a nosedive in 2020, dropping $1.6 billion to just $669 million. Nearly half of Australian unis reported a loss and most struggled to break even. Only three ...
More »Australia to lose half of its international students by 2021: Mitchell Institute
New modelling by education policy think tank Mitchell Institute at Victoria University shows a 50 per cent drop in Australia’s international student numbers by mid-2021 if the country’s borders remain closed. The 50 per cent drop, which equates to roughly ...
More »What comes after the lucky country
Citizens of the lucky country can no longer rely on good fortune for prosperity – they must rely on capabilities. This is the premise of a new Mitchell Institute report. "Today the question is not if we should seek to teach young ...
More »Give students more exposure to world of work: Mitchell Institute
Many students aren’t getting opportunities to connect with industry, and government must make efforts to bring the worlds of education and work closer together, a thinktank has argued. In its report Connecting the worlds of learning and work, the Mitchell ...
More »It’s time to reassess the ATAR: Mitchell Institute
Education experts have been left questioning the value of the ATAR, after new figures showed just one in four students were entering university undergraduate courses based on their year 12 results. The latest paper by Mitchell Institute at Victoria University ...
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