South Australian universities plead for the return of international students, amid a 33% drop in enrolments Bianca Healey
South Australian universities, having been hurt by drastic declines in student numbers, are joining the call for the federal government to develop a plan to bring back international students.
The state says it is working on a plan similar to that of New South Wales, which will quarantine students in accommodation managed by universities and separate from state-run hotel quarantine.
“It has become clear that with careful quarantining, supported by increasing rates of vaccination, our students should be able to return to South Australia to resume their studies,” vice president of Flinders University Sebastian Raneskold said.
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NSW says it will begin accepting international students within months with a program that excludes the Federal Government and will likely be paid for by the university sector.
The proposal has been accepted by the NSW Premier and will allow students to quarantine in purpose-built housing in Sydney.
The NSW State Treasurer Dominic Perrottet said he supported the program and promised it would not take spaces away from Australians returning to the country.
International students have been approved to return to NSW as soon as August as part of a new plan pushed by the state’s university sector.
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The travelling circus of industry shills begging for a return of ‘Big Australia’ immigration rolls on, with Michael Stutley – partner at Kingston Reid – penning an advertorial in
The AFR claiming that Australia’s
“social and economic success” is at risk unless we bring back so-called skilled migrants:
It [skilled migration] needs to grow. Sharply. Australia has built its social and economic success on the back of skilled migration.
…Companies are struggling just to keep current workforces. Naysayers assert there is no skilled labour shortage because we have not seen a sharp rise in wages. They said the same thing during the last boom…