The bill would give the federal government the power to cap foreign student numbers, which have bounced back to pre-pandemic levels much quicker than expected.
A Labor-led Senate committee has thrown its support behind the Albanese government's push to limit the number of international students at Australian universities but recommended a major amendment.
Coalition members of the committee supported the recommendations while criticising the government's lack of transparency throughout the process, while the Greens accused Labor of "crushing higher education in a bid to look tough on migration". The committee more or less agreed, calling for the course-level caps to be scrapped while still allowing different limits for regional and metropolitan campuses and different sectors, such as universities and VET providers
"While the bill gives the minister the power to set total enrolment limits for each higher education and VET provider which we support for the reasons stated above, we hold deep concerns about the lack of adequate safeguards to ensure such caps are allocated appropriately, fairly and in the national interest," Coalition senators wrote.
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