| AUSTRALIA: Collapse in foreign student numbers | |
Australia's universities face further sharp falls in enrolments of overseas students, with many institutions already suffering the effects of a massive downturn and the loss of millions of dollars in fee revenues.
A new report predicts a continuing decline following a government clampdown on foreign graduating students gaining permanent residency. For the past decade, the lure of a permanent resident's visa has attracted an ever-increasing number of Asian students - mostly Indian and Chinese - who have enrolled in universities and technical colleges in their tens of thousands. But the report, based on an analysis of Immigration Department data by Dr Bob Birrell and other researchers at Monash University, says unpublished departmental estimates suggest that under the government's new points test, the number of applicants seeing permanent visas will fall to around 4,000 a year - down from 20,000 two years ago. Read more |
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