Universities say they face a $500 million funding shortfall and are calling for the sector to be given the same bipartisan support as the mining industry.
Universities are warning 4500 jobs could go as the government’s international student clampdown leaves a $500 million hole in their budgets and are calling for the same bipartisan support as the mining industry receives.
“Framed as measures to shore up the sector’s integrity, we now have every reason to believe these changes were a cap by stealth on international students.” “Other factors, not international students, are to blame,” he will say. “The political imperative to act lies in Australia’s housing crisis – a mess for which international students have become convenient scapegoats.”Sheehy will say universities are forecasting a collective shortfall of at least half a billion dollars this year due to the visa processing changes and increase in visa cancellations, which he said would “inevitably” lead to cuts to campus infrastructure, research and jobs.
The peak body head will appeal to both sides of politics to give tertiary educators the same support as the mining sector, which, according to the Minerals Council, raked in $455 billion in export revenue in 2022-23.
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