Brett Blacker News Today

Over the next year, an estimated 100,000 ‘students’ will either not arrive under new migration rules, or will be pushed to return home.

The peak body for the ELICOS sector in Australia has hit a milestone of 40 years in the international education industry this year.

Australia has announced it is ending a visa that sector stakeholders say students have been utilising to end their studies early and access full time work in the country.

International education professionals gathered on the Gold Coast in July at the PIE Live Australia for two days of discussions, upskilling and networking.

There are concerns that public sentiment towards international students and international education in Australia may face challenges in the years ahead.

Rorting and abuse of the visa system by students is skyrocketing, with a 450 per cent hike in one type of pandemic visa in six months.

Until the pandemic, China accounted for a third of all international students who contributed $10 billion to the economy in 2019. But that’s well and truly changed.

Once NASA launches its powerful new observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, the spacecraft is already slated to do more than 10,000 hours of science in its first year of life. Here’s how scientists prioritized what the telescope should do first.