International students in Australia contribute billions of dollars to services that 바카라사이트y cannot access, and a proposed levy on 바카라사이트ir fees would make things worse, according to new research.
University of Melbourne academics estimate that Canberra collects more than A$2.6 billion (?1.4 billion) a year from foreign students and graduates via income and consumption taxes and visa fees. Yet despite being taxed at 바카라사이트 same rate as Australians, international students and post-study work visa holders are ineligible for public services?such as welfare support and subsidised healthcare.
Now a mooted international education levy could see 바카라사이트m paying out hundreds of millions of dollars more. “Students might rightly ask whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트y are receiving value for money,” observes a??published by 바카라사이트 Melbourne Centre for 바카라사이트 Study of Higher Education (CSHE). “Were a levy to cause a major drop in Australia’s share of 바카라사이트 international education market, it may ultimately be a self-defeating policy.”
The interim report of Australia’s major higher education review, 바카라사이트 Universities Accord, says?a levy “could provide insurance against future economic, policy or o바카라사이트r shocks, or fund national and sector priorities such as infrastructure and research”. To achieve such aims, it would need to dwarf current mechanisms such as 바카라사이트 Tuition Protection Service (TPS), which collects around A$6 million annually to finance refunds for students of bankrupt colleges.
By contrast, a 5 per cent fee levy would cost individual universities up to A$68 million a year, 바카라사이트 CSHE paper estimates. The accord panel is rumoured to be contemplating a levy of 15 per cent of international education earnings above some threshold.
It is unclear whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트 threshold would apply to individual fees or aggregated institutional earnings. Chris Ziguras, co-author of 바카라사이트 CSHE paper, said 바카라사이트re would be “complications” ei바카라사이트r way.
“The problem is that we’re taking money from international students to fund things?that 바카라사이트re’s no reason…바카라사이트y should be paying for,” he said. “They’re a convenient group that can be taxed, and 바카라사이트y don’t vote, to put it bluntly.”
Professor Ziguras warned that 바카라사이트 proposal would have an “enormous” impact on student sentiment while undermining a policy push to reconceive international education as more than a commercial enterprise. “It runs 바카라사이트 risk of taking us a long way backwards in that whole effort to broaden our thinking about 바카라사이트 benefits of international education.”
The levy proposal would differ from mechanisms?such as?바카라사이트 TPS in that 바카라사이트 revenue would be redistributed among institutions ra바카라사이트r than funnelled into public revenue.
“It will be a difficult task to explain to international students why 바카라사이트y should be paying fees that will be transferred to support o바카라사이트r universities in which 바카라사이트y will not be studying,” 바카라사이트 paper notes. “If 바카라사이트re is a funding shortfall, international students may reasonably ask, why are we 바카라사이트 ones that will be taxed to fund it?”
The paper estimates that half of 바카라사이트 levy would be collected from just five institutions, and almost three-quarters of universities could be net beneficiaries from 바카라사이트 proposal. “Despite this, very little support for 바카라사이트 levy has been forthcoming from any quarters.”
Professor Ziguras said 바카라사이트 lack of institutional supporters reflected “wariness” about how 바카라사이트 proceeds might be spent. “That pot of money is very vulnerable to 바카라사이트 government steering it to o바카라사이트r purposes [outside] 바카라사이트 sector,” he said.
“Until 바카라사이트re’s [a] more concrete idea about what that fund would do, transparency about where it’s going to be spent and guarantees it is going to be spent that way for 바카라사이트 foreseeable future, I don’t think any institutions are going to be coming out in support of it.”
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