The Victorian Treasurer has slammed the Albanese government over its plan to slash the numbers of international students and warned of unintended consequences.
The Victorian treasurer says the federal government’s deep cuts to international university student numbers will devastate his state’s economy from next year.
Smaller and regional universities welcomed the changes on Tuesday, with their intake numbers likely to remain unchanged or grow slightly. Treasurer Tim Pallas says the federal government needs to do a better job at consulting the states and the higher education sector.While key details of the plan are yet to be disclosed, Melbourne University and its cross-town counterpart Monash University look set to cop a 26 per cent reduction in new overseas enrolments in 2025, according to sources in the sector familiar with enrolment data at the big unis but unwilling to speak publicly.
Under the plan, universities with the highest concentration of international students – more than 37 per cent of the total cohort – would lose 50 per cent of whatever growth in overseas enrolments they had generated since 2019.
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