Australia
has the second highest share of international students in the world which
brings in $30 billion a year.
As
Education Minister Jason Clare says “it’s the biggest export we don’t dig out
of the ground.”
The government is cracking
down on the sector amid a wider push to bring down migration, in what
Australian National University higher education expert Andrew Norton has called
"by far the biggest reversal in policy" since international education
was established.
It has already brought in a
slew of changes aimed at weeding out bogus applicants, including changed visa
processing priorities, more stringent entry conditions, and a doubling of the
application fee, which have led industry bodies to warn that visa
applications are plummeting and job cuts will soon follow........................
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