Tim Dodd admits international education model is broken

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The Australian’s higher education shill, Tim Dodd, has spent years writing propaganda about the immense ‘benefits’ of Australia’s international education (read migration) industry, while always ignoring the costs.

Today Dodd seems to have experienced a mea culpa, admitting the international education model was broken all along:

It is, thus, obvious that Australia’s international student business will look very different when it finally is able to revive itself. And it will need a new and different strategy if it is to win support domestically from both government and the public, and be attractive to international students.

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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.