Victoria's 31 boarding schools have been unable to accept new international students since COVID-19 entered Australia, and many foreign students returned home rather than stay in Australia indefinitely.
The idea was raised at a roundtable attended by the association, the National Catholic Education Commission, Independent Schools Council of Australia and the Isolated Children's Parents' Association last week.
A handful of Victorian boarding schools have stayed open over the school holidays rather than lose international students to coronavirus border restrictions.Toorak College in Mount Eliza will host a summer holiday program for international students across the state who are "not willing to take the 'risk' of exiting Australia without the certainty of being able to return in January.
Principal Andrew Hirst said 27 of the school's 32 international boarders returned to their homes in China, Hong Kong and Cambodia in term two rather than stay apart from their families during the COVID-19 crisis.Dr Hirst said these students were learning remotely with the school and want to return. In addition, he is hoping, but not expecting, the school's 20 South Australian boarders will return in term four.
The school's director of boarding, Chris Van Styn, hopes the Victoria-NSW border will reopen soon, so it can get NSW boarders back for term four.
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