As one who witnessed the decimation of education since the Hawke/Keating government turned a useful working model of traditional education on its head, no sympathy here.

Neoliberal governments since have joined the wagon of destruction, by adding in oversupplies of immigrants through a back door which is more worn than the front, to prop up a failed ponzie scheme of pyramid selling which, in the end its good riddance to bad rubbish.

And the crocodile tears for Chinese scammers using the education ponzie as a vehicle to scorch the locals out of their housing and onto the streets, suck eggs!

Dan

I would be "thrilled" to see the education of foreigners fizzle out, never to return. We should be concentrating on educating our own, not enriching universities and bringing in Chinese spies to Australia. This business of relying on Communists for income must stop.

have been involved in the Australian International Education industry for almost 20 years and I have been thrilled to watch it grow and prosper over the years
Michael Baron,
Yes, but education is not about the bureaucrats' pockets, is it ! I'd have thought preventing indoctrination & teaching values & useful information instead would be the main criteria of education.
As an uneducated observer even I can see the dumbing-down since the Goaf years of so-called 'educated' people. Unlike you, I feel dismay !

If coronavirus does nothing but eliminate this dirty back door immigration scheme, used to increase the earnings of academics, themselves of little value to Oz, then all the rest of the pain suffered by those infected & real industries like the tourism industry will be worth while.

To the extent foreign student education was an immigration scam good riddance. Graduates had to spend two years in the most appalling rural hardship such as the Gold Coast before getting residence. It was clearly getting out of hand when UTas started moving out of Sandy Bay into the Hobart CBD. They purchased hotels and a giant hardware store as well as developing prime waterfront sites.

In contrast places like Cambridge UK took centuries to become student towns. I'm also a bit suspicious of the value some of the courses. Get fat fees for a Diploma of Aromatherapy or whatever then throw the student out on the street.

Hopefully, Australia can get back to educating Australians, and not having its universities run as business operations simply relying on more and more on foreign students to promote supposed greatness