Today
- Exclusive
- Education
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.
- 20 mins ago
- Julie Hare
June
How Trump’s Green Card promise could disrupt Australian unis
Donald Trump wants international students to stay in the US after graduation and while his campaign insists this is a qualified promise, it will interest many.
- Julie Hare
Online lectures at double speed: what uni is really like in 2024
Domestic students are being held back and international students aren’t getting what they need, says one expert. Universities know this. Why aren’t they doing more?
- Gus McCubbing and Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- Research
‘Very wealthy’ unis ‘disingenuous’ about foreign student fees
Universities are richer than they claim and spend less of their overseas student revenue on research than they say.
- 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
Employee-starved businesses likely to bypass migrant caps: report
Businesses are likely to recruit workers from New Zealand and working holidaymakers, a major report says, avoiding moves by Labor and the Coalition to cut Australia’s permanent skilled migration intake.
- Tom McIlroy and Julie Hare
Migration finally turns a corner as reforms bite
Net migration hit a record high of 547,000 in 2023, but in the last three months of the year numbers started heading in the opposite direction.
- Julie Hare
NSW unis in a sea of red, but worse to come
NSW universities struggled for a second year in a row, but their annus horribilis is still on the horizon.
- Julie Hare
Ellerston Capital snaps up IDP Education stake, hoping for rebound
The boutique fund manager’s Chris Kourtis told clients that the immigration restrictions weighing on the share price had created an “attractive entry point”.
- Joshua Peach
- Exclusive
- Skills
2000 jobs lost in foreign education sector the ‘tip of the iceberg’
The Albanese government’s migration cuts have triggered staff cutbacks at colleges and recruitment firms, and at least one university has imposed a hiring freeze.
- Julie Hare
Dutton spruiks gas and nuclear to win back Victoria
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has used a speech in Melbourne to spruik gas and nuclear energy while attacking the teals, Daniel Andrews – and Sydney University.
- Updated
- Gus McCubbing
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
How short sellers won big on story of housing market pain
IDP Education plunged after the full extent of immigration restrictions in Australia, Canada and Britain became clear. It hopes the pain will be short-lived, but that will depend on house prices.
- Updated
- James Thomson
IDP Education dives on fears international students will stay away
The country’s largest listed provider of international education services says the restrictions in Australia, Canada and the UK are “linked to election cycles”.
- Kylar Loussikian
May
- Opinion
- University
On the front line of Australia’s foreign student surge
International students are in the sights of both a government and opposition looking to win votes. Who are these political pawns, and what is it like to teach them?
- Updated
- Mark Mulligan
- Exclusive
- Education
Migration cuts scaring off investors in student digs: industry
A shortfall will exist even if international student numbers drop to as low as 25 per cent of 2019 levels, according to Savills.
- Campbell Kwan
‘Blaming a guest’: Chinese international students slam migration cut
International students say they are being unfairly blamed for Australia’s housing crisis after the Labor government moved to clampdown on migration.
- Gus McCubbing
- Exclusive
- University
SA premier slams migration cuts, raises alarm on innovation
Peter Malinauskas has slammed the ramped-up rhetoric around migration, and said cuts would not solve the housing crisis but would decimate research.
- Julie Hare
Harsh migration cuts will stifle new mega-uni’s ambitions
Adelaide University got its official tick of approval on Tuesday, but its plan to recruit 13,000 new students over eight years could suffer from migration cuts.
- Julie Hare
Readers back production tax credits, wary of immigration cuts
Most readers of The Australian Financial Review support the Albanese government’s production tax credits, but less than a third back his immigration cuts designed to tackle the housing crisis.
- Updated
- Gus McCubbing
Why universities are headed for a reckoning
Half the students at Sydney and Melbourne universities are now from overseas. A decade ago, this figure was 25 per cent. But cuts are coming, and for some it’s a matter of survival.
- Updated
- Julie Hare
