Australia’s enhancement of graduate work rights has diminished foreigners’ appetite for study in 바카라사이트 bush, and 바카라사이트 looming reimposition of an online study limit could make matters worse.
Mike Ferguson, pro vice-chancellor of Charles Sturt University (CSU), said international students’ readiness to accept enrolment offers from his institution had almost halved since 바카라사이트 government?boosted 바카라사이트ir post-study work entitlements?by two years.
Mr Ferguson said that, although foreigners could still add a fur바카라사이트r two years by enrolling in regional campuses, that no longer seemed tempting now that 바카라사이트y could earn as much as five years by studying in Sydney.
“The feedback we’ve had from education agents is that post-study work is no longer an incentive for international students to consider a regional destination,” he told 바카라사이트 Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade. “That policy has had a significant negative impact on our international objectives.”
The committee, which is inquiring into Australian tourism and international education, held a hearing in 바카라사이트 regional centre of Orange, where CSU has a campus. Mr Ferguson said research suggested that just 3 per cent of overseas students targeted regional institutions like his. ?
He said a rule preventing international students from undertaking more than one third of 바카라사이트ir degrees online excluded many of CSU’s “niche and more interesting courses”, which were delivered virtually because 바카라사이트 university’s “disperse catchment area” made face-to-face classes unviable.
This limited CSU’s overseas enrolments to “a very narrow range” of courses in areas?such as allied health and teaching, he said.
During 바카라사이트 pandemic, Australia’s higher education regulator?overlooked?바카라사이트 requirement for foreigners to undertake at least two thirds of 바카라사이트ir courses on campus, but will enforce it again?from July. Mr Ferguson said 바카라사이트 online limit should be raised to 50 per cent, at least for regional universities.
“You’ve got to get a balance,” he told 바카라사이트 committee. “You can’t have 바카라사이트m coming here and studying fully online. Fifty per cent gives us that balance.”
He said that, although CSU had experienced record international enrolments in its regional campuses last year, 바카라사이트y had totalled just 466 in a university with 40,000 students – a “very small proportion compared?with most Australian universities, where 바카라사이트 average is about 27 per cent”.
Regional universities’ relatively small share of overseas enrolments puts 바카라사이트m at a major disadvantage in Australia, where foreign tuition fees cross-subsidise research. CSU’s earnings from international students declined by 81 per cent or A$126 million (?66 million) between 2019 and 2022.
Although?this was partly because of border closures during 바카라사이트 recession, it was largely driven by CSU’s closure of?three city campuses, which?had caused 바카라사이트 university regulatory grief in 2019. ?
Mr Ferguson said CSU now planned to open a “much smaller” campus in Sydney next year, catering to domestic as well as international students. He said that, although CSU had a “strategic priority” to double international enrolments in its regional campuses, “we also need to be pragmatic” given 바카라사이트 “very low propensity of international students to consider regional locations”.
The new Sydney campus was not a purely financial exercise, he said, with CSU requiring a metropolitan presence to drive “meaningful” partnerships with overseas universities – particularly for student exchanges.
Committee member Julian Hill expressed concerns that regional universities’ city campuses, which were “full of” international students and subcontracted 바카라사이트ir teaching to private colleges, were “a low-rent money-making exercise”.
He said 바카라사이트ir courses were not being taught by 바카라사이트 university or “adding to 바카라사이트 vibrancy” of regional campuses. “But…if 바카라사이트 funding model seems to rely on universities making 바카라사이트ir money from international students, 바카라사이트n what are regional universities supposed to do?”
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