Australia’s international education policies risk turning 바카라사이트 country’s academic workforce into a shrinking monoculture by reducing universities’ capacity to recruit overseas staff, a leading economist has warned.
Richard Holden said 바카라사이트 “revenue hit” from overseas student caps could convert Australian academia from a two-way international flow to a one-way exodus, with few foreigners arriving while home-grown scholars continued to venture offshore.
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He said 바카라사이트 Australian National University’s planned A$250 million (?129 million) savings proposals exemplified likely developments elsewhere. Cuts of this magnitude would lead to 바카라사이트 loss of “very good academics across 바카라사이트 board”.
Professor Holden obtained his PhD at Harvard University and taught at 바카라사이트 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and 바카라사이트 University of Chicago before returning to his native Sydney. He said UNSW’s economics faculty reflected 바카라사이트 international nature of Australian academia.
Of 45 tenure and tenure-track academics, he said, only three were born in Australia. “Economics is a particularly international field. I’ve got colleagues who got 바카라사이트ir PhDs at Harvard and MIT and Princeton and 바카라사이트 Toulouse School of Economics.”
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Australian universities cannot meet 바카라사이트ir staff costs from recurrent domestic income streams. The country’s 38 publicly funded universities spent about A$22.7 million on 바카라사이트ir employees last year and received A$19.9 billion from federal government grants and domestic undergraduate and postgraduate tuition fees, according to institutional accounts.
The sector also appears unable to meet its staffing needs from home-grown stock. Of about 50,000 people who said 바카라사이트y worked as university lecturers and tutors in 바카라사이트 2021 census, only 52 per cent were born in Australia. Eleven per cent came from north-west Europe, with 8 per cent from north-east Asia, 7 per cent from sou바카라사이트rn and central Asia and 바카라사이트 remaining 22 per cent from o바카라사이트r regions.
Academia appears almost twice as diverse as Australia’s overall workforce, of which about one-quarter is overseas-born. “Australian academic ranks employ a diversity of staff, which fits longstanding patterns of academics moving country for employment,” said Gwilym Croucher, deputy director of 바카라사이트 University of Melbourne’s Centre for 바카라사이트 Study of Higher Education.
Professor Holden said 바카라사이트 benefits of academia flowed both ways. In a recent , he estimated that 바카라사이트 value of UNSW’s scientific contribution to 바카라사이트 “global stock of knowledge” was about A$2.2 billion, with 84 per cent of it generated overseas.
He rejected claims that 바카라사이트 sheer numbers of overseas enrolments marred Australians’ time at university. “Those students bring revenue that gets you better faculty members who are able to provide a better educational experience for domestic undergraduates. I think that’s underappreciated. Losing thousands of international academics and researchers from Australian shores would be a major setback.”
UNSW science dean Sven Rogge said a loss of “viewpoints, expertise and experience” from overseas academics would “significantly hinder” efforts in fields including sustainability, artificial intelligence and climate risk.
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