Navitas demands Aussie taxpayers subsidise international student jobs

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Three years ago, FTAlphaville published the below report on Navitas – a company founded in Perth in 1994 that earns enormous profits providing agency services to Non-English Speaking (NES) students seeking to study in Australia and other developed nations:

[In early 2019] a consortium of buyers took an Australian company private in a multi-billion-dollar deal. The move wasn’t a play on commodities, real estate or any other of the other lines of business you might associate with the country’s economy.

Instead, it was all about education.

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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.