Is the student visa crackdown impacting staff morale in DHA?
Ongoing high refusal rates of student visas, based largely on highly subjective criteria, are unsustainable from the perspective of staff, applicants and providers. Source
Ministers for the of Home Affairs Website
Minister for Home Affairs, Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs, Minister for Emergency Management.​​​ Source
International education with student eyes: of value and values
As president of the European Students’ Union, I have encountered developments in the international education sector that sounded pessimist, sometimes even alarmist, with most originating from within Europe or the Anglo-Saxon world. Source
UK reports warn against dismissing concerns on international student numbers
Reports on UK student numbers warned that England’s financial dependence on overseas students makes it important to address concerns over the admission of large numbers. Source
Cap overseas students to tackle housing shortages, England told
University requests to increase visa allocations should be rejected if expansion would exacerbate local room shortages, argues Social Market Foundation paper Source
Accord implementation proposals, part #2: The distribution of student places to universities and the folly of hard caps
An earlier post looked at the government’s plans for the Australian Tertiary Education Commission. This post examines the government’s proposals for setting the number of student places and distributing them between universities. This includes a hard institution-level cap on student places, so that universities would get zero funding for enrolments above their allocated level. This… Source
Accord implementation proposals, part #1: Setting up ATEC
The government has released ‘implementation consultation’ papers on the Australian Tertiary Education Commission (ATEC) and how its system of managed growth in Commonwealth supported places would work. This post looks at some features of the ATEC paper. A subsequent post looks at how ATEC would distribute student places between universities. ATEC legislation ATEC would have… Source
Report: Approval, processing rates drop after IRCC’s student cap
Considerable changes occurred to Canada’s study permit program in January of this year Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) instituted a temporary international student cap effective between 2024 and 2026. It supported this policy through a new Provincial Attestation Letter (PAL) system, distributing this cap among Canada’s provinces and territories. IRCC will aim to approve Source
