Aussie universities still dangerously addicted to Chinese students
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Australia’s booming pre-COVID international education industry was built on the back of Chinese students:
China was Australia’s most lucrative student market.
In 2019, this prompted Associate Professor Salvator Babones to publish the seminal paper, The China Student Boom and the Risks It Poses to Australian Universities, which showed that Australian universities had become dangerously dependent on Chinese students, with concentrations that dwarf similar advanced nations:
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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.