Submissions to the Senate inquiry into the government’s international student caps bill are now appearing online. The House of Representatives has also started debating the bill. My submission The online scanned pdf version of my submission is not a sharp copy, the Word version is here. It expands on the arguments I made in my… Source

Ongoing high refusal rates of student visas, based largely on highly subjective criteria, are unsustainable from the perspective of staff, applicants and providers. Source

Minister for Home Affairs, Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs, Minister for Emergency Management.​​​ Source

As president of the European Students’ Union, I have encountered developments in the international education sector that sounded pessimist, sometimes even alarmist, with most originating from within Europe or the Anglo-Saxon world. Source

Reports on UK student numbers warned that England’s financial dependence on overseas students makes it important to address concerns over the admission of large numbers. Source

University requests to increase visa allocations should be rejected if expansion would exacerbate local room shortages, argues Social Market Foundation paper Source

An earlier post looked at the government’s plans for the Australian Tertiary Education Commission. This post examines the government’s proposals for setting the number of student places and distributing them between universities. This includes a hard institution-level cap on student places, so that universities would get zero funding for enrolments above their allocated level. This… Source

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The government has released ‘implementation consultation’ papers on the Australian Tertiary Education Commission (ATEC) and how its system of managed growth in Commonwealth supported places would work. This post looks at some features of the ATEC paper. A subsequent post looks at how ATEC would distribute student places between universities. ATEC legislation ATEC would have… Source