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Melbourne’s worst-performing VCE school closed over child safety concerns

Families of international secondary students have had to scramble to find new schools after a CBD college’s registration was cancelled.

  • Nicole Precel and Noel Towell

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Students want to know about employment outcomes, research opportunities and the effect on their career choices.

Lazy students are welching on our uni group assignments. It’s dragging down my marks

If a student isn’t at a level where they can pass a subject, they shouldn’t be able to sail by on the back of someone else’s work.

  • Saria Ratnam
Bill Shorten, full of sound advice

‘Morphine drip’: Shorten warns of international student addiction, calls for new tax to fund unis

In a major intervention on the future of tertiary education, Bill Shorten says the broken higher education system forces universities to act as migration levers rather than centres of research.

  • Rob Harris
A bushfire map from NBC in 2013 suggested the entire country was going up in smoke.

What do migration debates and bushfires have in common? They both scare off foreign students

Government messaging must be consistent and disciplined because would-be students – and their governments – are reading.

  • Sally Rawsthorne
Immigration levels are higher than the government forecasts.

International students locked out of in-person hearings for visa appeals

The Albanese government wants to speed up tribunal reviews after being swamped with almost 50,000 cases of students contesting their visa rejections.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
International student Ariye Sunilkumar Monee says the high cost for her degree is worth it.

‘It’s worth it’: The shocking cost of degrees for international students

Ariye’s engineering masters degree will cost her $180,000 – and that’s on the cheaper end of the scale. Search our list.

  • Aidan Elwig Pollock, Craig Butt and Sally Rawsthorne
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Charles Sturt’s campus in North Sydney, which is operated by Navitas– a company owned by a private equity firm.

Who is really running the university campuses in CBD office blocks?

A Menzies Research report has suggested universities are facilitating “visa hopping” to effectively grant international students work rights.

  • Christopher Harris
Authorities there are working closely with the University of Wollongong to open an international campus in the Saudi capital, Riyadh

Offshore and out of touch? The curly questions confronting Australian universities overseas

The University of Wollongong’s decision to become the first foreign university in Saudi Arabia has raised eyebrows across the sector.

  • Sally Rawsthorne
ECU City will extend from Perth Busport to Yagan Square.

How Perth’s first inner-city university campus is reshaping the CBD

Infrastructure Australia has predicted 16,400 students will be based in the Perth CBD by 2030, up from 9200 in 2025.

  • Holly Thompson
The University of Sydney was the only one of 32 universities to have their request for extra international students knocked back.

Sydney Uni singled out to get no extra international students next year

The sandstone university was the only institution to be knocked back in its bid to host a share of 17,500 extra foreign student places.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos