The Australian’s resident edu-migration lobby mouthpiece, Tim Dodd, has penned another puff piece calling on Australia’s universities to better look after international students:
- “In 2014 education exports were worth $19.8bn. Five years later, in 2019, they had more than doubled to $40.3bn. It was a gold rush”…
- “When students do finally return to Australia – which given the politics of the situation is not likely until after next year’s federal election – universities need to have a new and more effective strategy to engage international students”.
- “Partly it’s what the students are owed when they travel to another country and pay high fees for what should be a high-quality education experience. They should go home with a set of lifelong friends and feeling that their period of study in Australia was personally worthwhile”.
- “Universities also have to help local students to see international students as assets to their education, and certainly not as people to avoid doing group assignments with”.
Yet again, Tim Dodd spouts the highly exaggerated $40 billion ‘exports’ figure without question, which has been repeatedly debunked.
