My tearful farewell to my son cast new light on the foreign student ‘industry’
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University

My tearful farewell to my son cast new light on the foreign student ‘industry’

My son has become an international student. His departure has given me a new perspective on the young people who are temporarily calling Australia home.

  • byMalcolm Knox

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Top Sydney unis are the biggest targets of the student cap. It will cost the state billions

Top Sydney unis are the biggest targets of the student cap. It will cost the state billions

UNSW and Sydney University will be forced to slash their international enrolments by more than 40 per cent. This is how we got here and what it means.

  • byDaniella White andMatt Wade
New foreign students capped at 270,000 in blow for large universities

New foreign students capped at 270,000 in blow for large universities

Education Minister Jason Clare has asked big city universities to slash their number of international students.

  • byNatassia Chrysanthos andDaniella White
Sydney University accused of ‘gold plating’ campus with foreign enrolments around 50 per cent

Sydney University accused of ‘gold plating’ campus with foreign enrolments around 50 per cent

University chiefs have slammed Labor’s proposed international student caps as Sydney University is accused of swimming in ‘rivers of gold’ from foreign fees.

  • byDaniella White
Sydney University student found dead in Burwood unit identified

Sydney University student found dead in Burwood unit identified

Detectives are appealing for help from the community to solve the death of the student who will be remembered at a vigil next week.

  • byJessica McSweeney
‘Great uncertainty’:Sydney Uni warns staff of cuts ahead of foreign student caps

‘Great uncertainty’:Sydney Uni warns staff of cuts ahead of foreign student caps

The vice chancellor wrote to staff on Tuesday warning that the institution was considering how it would manage financial shortfalls from a cut to international students.

  • byDaniella White
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Labor’s international student caps ignite recession fears
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Labor’s international student caps ignite recession fears

Australia could be pushed into a recession if universities are forced to slash their international student numbers under Labor’s migration crackdown.

  • byDaniella White
Federal government intervenes in uni housing stoush as acting school boss chokes up
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Development

Federal government intervenes in uni housing stoush as acting school boss chokes up

NIDA board member and Logie-winning actor Sigrid Thornton joined a full court press from the acting school to stop a student housing development next door to its Kensington campus.

  • byMichael Koziol
The most deplorable thing unis copied from big business,aside from vice-chancellor pay
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University

The most deplorable thing unis copied from big business,aside from vice-chancellor pay

Successive federal governments have engineered a kind of backdoor privatisation of our universities. It’s a race to the bottom.

  • byRoss Gittins
Universities say 14,000 jobs face axe as Labor’s ‘poll-driven’ crackdown bites

Universities say 14,000 jobs face axe as Labor’s ‘poll-driven’ crackdown bites

Australian universities claim the government’s migration crackdown is already costing the sector dearly,even before proposed caps are implemented.

  • byDaniella White
Alarm from within as colleges face collapse under Labor’s foreign student crackdown

Alarm from within as colleges face collapse under Labor’s foreign student crackdown

Local students could be left out of pocket and unable to finish their courses in the event of college closures,the Australian Skills Quality Authority has warned.

  • byDaniella White