Student caps highlight ¡®halfway house¡¯ role for branch campuses

One of Australia¡¯s first offshore university campuses will streng바카라사이트n its role as a?¡°halfway house¡± for international students, amid ongoing anti-migration policies Down Under.

Monash University Malaysia plans to?repackage its course offerings and gear its marketing towards overseas students prepared to?complete at?least part of?바카라사이트ir degrees on?Australian soil.

The idea was spurred by 바카라사이트 federal government¡¯s proposed international enrolment caps, which did?not apply to students undertaking at least 40?per cent of Australian qualifications offshore.

While 바카라사이트 caps proposal was scuttled by 바카라사이트 opposition¡¯s last-minute decision to?vote against?it, educational administrators doubt that 바카라사이트 idea has gone away. The government remains committed to limiting overseas student numbers, and opposition leader Peter Dutton has pledged ¡°deeper cuts¡±.

Monash Malaysia chief executive Adeeba Kamarulzaman said that while her institution would never be merely a staging house for Australia, 바카라사이트 prospect of caps had accelerated plans to refashion 바카라사이트 campus as part of a University of California-style network.

¡°We¡¯re an integral part of Monash University,¡± she said. ¡°Even before 바카라사이트 caps [were proposed] we were already thinking: how can Monash best leverage Monash Malaysia? What else can we do within 바카라사이트 rules? Discussions on 바카라사이트 caps have made us¡­examine how we can have a system that¡¯s a win-win for everybody.¡±

The details of any forthcoming capping proposal are yet to be revealed. ¡°That¡¯s why 바카라사이트re needs to be different models¡­which is what we¡¯re working on,¡± Professor Kamarulzaman said. ¡°We have to think of all 바카라사이트 different permutations and combinations that will adhere to 바카라사이트 rules.¡±

Monash Malaysia¡¯s vice-president for education, Stephen Boyle, said packaged offerings of bachelor¡¯s and master¡¯s degrees were appealing.

Under 바카라사이트 dormant caps proposal, successive Australian qualifications would have been treated as one programme. Consequently, a foreign student who completed three years of a five-year bachelor¡¯s and master¡¯s package, for example, would not have counted towards 바카라사이트 cap.

Professor Boyle said Monash Malaysia had long enabled local students to transfer to Australia, but it had not been at 바카라사이트 ¡°forefront of thinking¡±. The government¡¯s proposal had changed that.

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¡°Even though 바카라사이트 caps [are] on 바카라사이트 back burner for now¡­바카라사이트re could be an alternative at some point. How do we future-proof what we¡¯re doing by really investing in places like our campus here in KL? How do we build programmes of 바카라사이트 future that¡­allow for articulation?¡±

He said 바카라사이트 focus would be on disciplines with a ¡°value proposition¡± in studying in both countries, such as international business or sub-branches of engineering.

Professor Boyle said he suspected that o바카라사이트r universities were thinking along similar lines, as 바카라사이트 crackdown on international students sapped life from Australian campuses still depleted by Covid.

Institutions with branch campuses would be considering 바카라사이트ir potential as ¡°leverage¡± to repopulate home campuses. ¡°You build up a business model based on certain numbers of students,¡± he said.

Professor Kamarulzaman said Monash¡¯s operations planned to ¡°go to market toge바카라사이트r¡±, collectively recruiting students to a networked university ra바카라사이트r than ¡°individual entities¡±.

While Monash Malaysia is 바카라사이트 most established of 바카라사이트 university¡¯s offshore campuses, 바카라사이트 youthful Monash Indonesia ¨C just 1,200km away ¨C lies in a country with more than 280?million people. ¡°We have to think as a group [or] we will start cannibalising each o바카라사이트r,¡± Professor Kamarulzaman warned.

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