Vice chancellors feel the political heat
Australian universities say they are in crisis with the imposition of caps on international students making funding gaps worse. But Education Minister Jason Clare says his priority is getting more equity students into the system.
The diagnosis of university symptoms is pretty clear by now, the cure less so.
Australia’s leading universities have become financially addicted to mass numbers of international students to fund their budgets. Successive governments have celebrated that as a major export earner for the country and (more quietly) as a useful way of reducing their own spending.
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