Victorian universities have urged the Andrews government to back a proposal to fly in thousands of international students and quarantine them in hotels.
A survey of universities has found they are continuing to lecture online in many of the lessons that were remote last year,with on-campus classes mostly limited to small tutorials.
The loss of international students is set to punch an $18 billion hole in the economy,placing state and federal governments under growing pressure to act.
Melbourne University is bracing for reputational damage as it prepares to cull science subjects in the latest response by the state’s higher education sector to tumbling revenue.
The sharp fall in international students,hits to revenue and an apparently unfriendly government have exacerbated an existential crisis. Whither our universities?