Populism aside, questions hang over universities’ foreign student trade
The political risk confronting universities’ lucrative international students trade raises questions about their business model and the benefits for the quality of Australian higher education.
Australian universities are caught up in a populist political storm over immigration and housing as Labor and the Coalition propose soft and hard caps, respectively, to cut the number of international students studying in Australia.
Short-term politics are jeopardising Australia’s successful international education export industry, despite Treasurer Jim Chalmers admitting that foreign students only add to the housing crisis “at the margins”.
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