International Students

Awesome.

Can’t verify this but presumably, Drew Pavlou has his sources: So sad Peter Høj didn’t get hired as the new Vice-Chancellor of the University of Adelaide.

It’s all good news today, at the SMH: The NSW government has shelved plans to start returning 1000 international students to Sydney each week in a blow to some of the city’s major universities.

Australian universities earned over $7 billion in student fees from China in 2019, with outgoing Australian Catholic University vice-chancellor Greg Craven describing the sector’s reliance on Chinese markets as being like a “drug addiction”.

The NSW Government’s hotel quarantine program is under scrutiny after a third case of COVID-19 was linked to returned overseas travellers.

The Australian’s Judith Sloan notes today that the higher education sector has expressed much angst about the fall in overseas student numbers as a result of border restrictions caused by COVID-19 and the impact this is having on higher education and the economy in general.

Two week’s sure is a long time in the world of COVID.

Academics from three WA universities are calling for a royal commission into higher education.

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has released a Bulletin Article examining the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Australia’s international student trade.

The University of Melbourne will receive an additional $111 million in research funding from the federal government, while Monash University and the University of New South Wales will each get an extra $100 million.

South Australia’s Independent Commissioner Against ­Corruption (ICAC) has undertaken a survey of university staff as part of its University Integrity Survey 2020.

CEO of International Education Association of Australia, Phil Honeywood, has demanded states lift their caps on international arrivals so that Australia can welcome thousands of international students: NSW has been accepting 80% of all returning Aussie citizens.