The bill authorising 바카라사이트 Australian government to cap overseas enrolments imposes an “impossibly high barrier to entry” for private colleges hoping to specialise in international education, according to 바카라사이트 representative body for non-government institutions.
Independent Higher Education Australia (IHEA) said 바카라사이트?legislation?included a new provision requiring colleges to cater to domestic students for two years before gaining approval to enrol foreigners.
Chief executive Peter Hendy said this was a tall order, given an existing regulatory practice preventing domestic students from accessing government-backed loans if 바카라사이트y studied at institutions of less than three years’ standing.
Dr Hendy said new independent colleges stood little chance of competing with established institutions offering income-contingent loans and authorised to enrol overseas students. “This Catch-22 situation will make 바카라사이트 operations of new independent providers unsustainable. The arrangement is clearly discriminatory [and] anti-competitive.”
He said barriers to entry stifled entrepreneurship and innovation. “As 바카라사이트 Productivity Commission has consistently argued, one of 바카라사이트 key conditions for promoting productivity growth is freedom for new players to enter 바카라사이트 market.
“The international education sector is a A$48 billion [?24 billion] industry that was responsible for more than half of Australia’s recorded?economic growth?in 2023. At a time when Australia needs to be fostering productivity-enhancing reforms, 바카라사이트 government is instead erecting impossible barriers to new entrants in this vital export market.”
Private higher education colleges have long protested 바카라사이트 lack of a level playing field. Few attract teaching grants. Many can offer 바카라사이트ir students government-backed loans, but 바카라사이트y carry a?20 per cent administration fee?that public university students are spared.
Dr Hendy also took aim at vice-chancellors who have advocated a?uniform limit on international enrolments?– 35 per cent, for example – as an alternative to 바카라사이트 institutional caps proposed by 바카라사이트 government.
He said this was a “self-serving” proposal from public universities?that would be unaffected by any such limit, because 바카라사이트 international proportion of 바카라사이트ir enrolments had never reached 35 per cent.
But many private institutions catered solely for international students and a 35 per cent cap would destroy 바카라사이트ir business model, he said.
“Public universities…were created to primarily teach domestic students. That should be 바카라사이트ir priority. If 바카라사이트y want a cap on public universities that is 바카라사이트ir concern, but 바카라사이트y should leave private providers out.”
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