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Higher Education Summit
The Higher Education Summit critically examines the policy shake-ups, big ideas and bold strategies that aim at equipping the sector to meet the needs of our economy for decades to come.
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Join the Financial Review’s Higher Education Summit to gain insights into policy changes, innovative ideas, and ambitious strategies aimed at preparing the sector to meet the economy’s demands for years ahead.
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Foreign student visa fees doubled to highest in the world
Without warning, student visa application fees surged from $710 to $1600, in a move Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil said would ‘clean up’ the sector.
- Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- International students
‘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
Higher education key to bigger pay, Labor MP argues
When it comes to the relationship between education and earning capacity, research suggests more is better.
- 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
June
- Exclusive
- International students
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
- Opinion
- University
The politics behind the bipartisan U-turn on international education
Slashing international student numbers will devastate the business models for universities and many other international education providers.
- Jennifer Hewett
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
Foreign students ‘cannon fodder’ in poll-driven migration war
Universities have accused both sides of politics of using foreign students as “cannon fodder” in a poll-driven exercise to slash migration, risking thousands of jobs.
- Phillip Coorey and Tom McIlroy
- Opinion
- Immigration
Migration is our ‘special sauce’, so let’s be rational about it
We should be honest about failed housing policy, thoughtful about changing the international student mix, and not shunt blame onto migrants.
- Allegra Spender
May
What cutting immigration will cost Australia
This week on The Fin podcast, Michael Read and Julie Hare explain why net migration spiked and what deep cuts would mean for universities, the jobs market and economic growth.
‘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
Higher Education Summit
The Higher Education Summit critically examines the policy shake-ups, big ideas and bold strategies that aim at equipping the sector to meet the needs of our economy for decades to come.
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
- Exclusive
- China relations
Foreign student crackdown looms over Li Qiang visit
Chinese Premier Li Qiang will head to Australia next month amid uncertainty over new curbs on universities enrolling thousands of Chinese students.
- Andrew Tillett
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
- 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
‘Window of opportunity’ for graduates to score debt reprieve
An accounting quirk means some graduates can escape the brunt of indexation, but only if they act fast.
- Lucy Dean
- 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
Calling time on international student numbers
Australia’s universities and colleges are fighting plans to reduce international student numbers. Spurred by the housing crisis, the government thinks it has no choice.
- Jennifer Hewett
Three Australian unis make it into new global top 100
The Universities of Melbourne, Sydney and NSW are in the latest Centre for World University Rankings, but there are concerns about the nation’s research output.
- 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
April
Blaming students for housing crisis ‘simplistic’, universities say
A new report finds that conflating international students with the housing shortage is opportunistic and could have profound ramifications on the economy.
- Julie Hare
Government baulks at hard caps on foreign student numbers
The Albanese government is shying away from a Canadian-style hard cap on foreign student numbers and will opt for more nuanced measures to control migration.
- Phillip Coorey and Julie Hare
