The Albanese government is planning sweeping reforms to cap foreign enrolments for 2025 – but universities and students are rallying in opposition.
The fight over the future of Australia’s $48-billion international education market will come to a head this week as universities plead their case to the Albanese government to delay or dilute its plan to
Lobby group Universities Australia claimed on Saturday that the uncertainty caused by Labor’s proposed changes had already reduced enrolments by nearly 60,000 students, costing the economy as much as $4.3 billion. The Group of Eight, an association of Australia’s wealthiest universities, last week demanded a meeting with newly appointed Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke to request a “reset” to the government’s approach.The universities are also working to reset community perceptions of their international students.
“Australia has become one of the countries with the highest application fees and those fees are non-refundable, just in case you don’t get your visa. “If they want to introduce this in 2025, then they should have been planning for it a couple of years ago,” Pickering said.
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