This Month
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
- Exclusive
- International students
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
Unis should face inquiry into $380m in underpayments: academics’ union
Universities are the worst underpayers of staff across the economy and now the academics’ union wants a federal inquiry.
- Julie Hare
Government moves to snatch control of students away from universities
The Albanese government is stepping into interventionist mode, planning to say how many students can study at a particular university and in what courses.
- 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
- Opinion
- Immigration
Why the government is desperate to cut immigration
There are many reasons for Australia’s inadequate housing supply, but a population jumping by 2.5 per cent a year obviously compounds the immediate problem.
- Jennifer Hewett
May
Trump verdict reveals deep US divisions: Dutton
Political leaders emphasised the strength of ties between Australia and the United States in the wake of the guilty verdict in Donald Trump’s election interference case.
- Tom McIlroy
Female graduates beat males on all fronts – except salary
The gender pay gap is reducing – slowly – over time. But women who graduate at the same time as men can still expect to earn significantly less.
- Julie Hare
- Opinion
- University
International students show our statecraft missing in action
Educating the region’s high-flyers is a major source of soft power for Australia. But we are in danger of taking it for granted.
- Susannah Patton
- Exclusive
- University
Failure to rein in uni bosses led to problems of ‘excess’
Peter Coaldrake has been deeply involved in the university sector for five decades, the past four years as head regulator. And he is troubled by what is going on.
- Julie Hare
One in, one out: Dutton plan ‘risks $48b foreign student industry’
Peter Dutton’s promise to reduce temporary migration to 160,000 people would smash the country’s fourth-largest export sector, experts say.
- Julie Hare
Migration hit would ‘destroy’ $48b education export sector
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s plan to slash Australia’s annual permanent migrant intake from 185,000 to 140,000 would deliver a near fatal blow to the country’s fourth-largest export.
- Julie Hare
- Opinion
- Federal budget
Double Aussie uni student numbers? The question is still how
A flurry of higher education announcements ahead of the budget didn’t get to the crux of Jason Clare’s big ambition. Neither did the budget.
- Julie Hare
Free courses to boost the chances of uni hopefuls
Universities and students have been the target for a mixed bag of measures that seek to expand domestic student places while curtailing international enrolments.
- Julie Hare
‘I just need an actual job’: No relief for students in debt nightmare
The biggest contributor to student debt is a scheme called Job Ready Graduates. But it doesn’t look like there will be any reprieve in the budget.
- Julie Hare
‘Horrible on every level’: Universities object to migration changes
Changes to limit the number of foreign students at educational colleges, universities and schools are highly interventionist and prescribe not only where students can study but what they can learn, providers said.
- Updated
- Julie Hare
New laws to cap international student intakes
The federal government has stopped short of imposing a hard cap on international student numbers, but will introduce new limits for each provider.
- Julie Hare
The students to get Labor’s new ‘prac payment’, and who misses out
Too strict means-testing would make the federal government’s newly announced prac payment for university and TAFE students out of reach.
- Julie Hare
Labor to give teaching, nursing students $320 per week payment
Teaching, nursing, midwifery and social work students will receive a weekly payment to help offset the costs of mandatory placements.
- Julie Hare
Labor to wipe $3b from students’ HECS debt
The government will cut the student debt of around 3 million students as cost-of-living pressures continue to create pain.
- Julie Hare