International students
The local legends helping isolated students feel at home
An anti-loneliness program aimed at international students has fostered unlikely friendships forged over footy, learning slang and meat pies.
- Rachael Ward
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Scammers posing as Chinese cops target international students
The criminals claiming to be cops and government officials have swindled nearly $800,000 from four victims this month, police say.
- Megan Gorrey
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
- Opinion
- University
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
‘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
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
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
‘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
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
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