Tuesday night is not the traditional party night in Canberra, but there was barely a sector in our economy that did not bask inon offer in Josh Frydenberg’s third budget.
was our third largest export earner, topping $40 billion. Alongside tourism the border closures implemented to stop COVID-19 entering Australia have hit universities more than other sectors of our economy.program at the height of the pandemic. The result has been a huge loss of jobs across the sector, with 20 per cent fewer jobs in February 2021 compared with May 2020.
, and for allowing educational standards to drop to accommodate the large cohort of foreign-born students.Penny Stephens There are now 260,000 fewer international students living in Australia than before the pandemic, and with new commencements dropping these figures will only get worse. The Mitchell Institute has forecast aThe universities need certainty over when our borders will reopen and they will be able to re-enter the competitive international market for students and researchers.
the uni's got themselves into the mess by going all out to get (rich) o/s students at the expense of Australian students then, rewarding themselves with big fat pay rises and salaries for doing such a great job, now that it's all gone belly up they seem to think it's (1/2)
So they should ! Australian Uni's have highly paid management, aligned themselves with Chinese Confucius institutes, remain silent with leftist student unions who STOP freedom of speech in Uni's and bully non conforming students. SkyNewsAust SamanthaX_real RitaPanahi
Who cares about the greedy universities?
if people are allowed to return from India Nepal philippine or other high risk Covid areas, why can’t students from local risk areas come back to continue their studies
one benefit of having no international students is locals have more job opportunities which leads to lower unemployment rate, hence Canberra policies look more successful
mary_tambling63 It’s time for the media to call out the failings of the ScottMorrisonMP led LNP government, Australia cannot do another 3 years under this PM or this govt
bruce_haigh I saw that under 'Announcements'. Mates: $Squillions. Universities : $Nothing.
bruce_haigh Disgraceful, universities are bleeding at the moment. To make it worse, the cost of many degrees has risen substantially (some +28%) and international students are scarce. Now is when the government should be assisting universities.
bruce_haigh Dumbing down society.
If only this could have been avoided ! *Looks at newspaper that supports libs in 80% of elections*
Because Universities mass produce crazy woke lefties who feel like the whole world is against them after realising they just paid thousands of dollars for 'skills' and 'knowledge' nobody in the real world cares about.
That is because they don't believe in tertiary education, they never have. auspol2021 VoteThemOut