Yesterday
Crackdown on overseas students triggers rise in refugee applications
A big spike in applications for refugee status is being explained by the federal government’s attempts to cut the number of overseas students in the country.
- Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- International students
Private colleges ‘collateral damage’ of migration changes
Alana Anderson’s business might have won exporter of the year for the NT but nothing is going to save her from the government’s migration agenda.
- Julie Hare
This Month
Allan urged to resist foreign student crackdown ahead of India trip
Melbourne University has urged the Victorian premier to push back against the federal government’s crackdown on international students ahead of her trip next month.
- Gus McCubbing
Vacancy rates show overseas students being scapegoated: unis
New analysis shows locals in Australia’s three biggest cities have a better chance of finding an apartment in suburbs with large international student populations.
- Julie Hare
Drought of boys in ballet creates problems for budding ballerinas
They are one half of a pas de deux, yet males are deserting ballet schools in alarming numbers. Queensland Ballet has gone all-out to reverse the trend.
- Michael Bailey
July
Ten books that could help you become a better investor
We asked money managers, financial advisers and a self-made multimillionaire to nominate the books that taught them the most about creating wealth.
- Tom Richardson
- Exclusive
- AI
Teachers to get AI training under NSW proposals
Specific training about the use of artificial intelligence and greater protections for copyrighted works are among recommendations from a state inquiry.
- Paul Smith
Stressed teens would rather finish school with no ATAR than sit exams
Students at co-educational schools reported the highest scores on emotional and mental wellbeing, and girls-only school students the lowest.
- Julie Hare
The $50,000 arts degree arrives, as student debt climbs
The cost of a degree is at historical highs, with no relief in sight for at least another two years.
- Julie Hare
‘It’s insane’: The secret world of tutors to the super-rich
For the children of the ultra-rich, education involves family tutors who fly with them around the world, with the best tutors earning $500,000 salaries.
- Mattie Brignal
- Opinion
- Opinion
Time running out to fix school funding sticking point
Here we are, 12 years later, with at least one school generation having finished their education, and there’s still no needs-based Gonski funding for disadvantaged students.
- Doug Taylor
Big PE sign NDAs, prepare first round bids for Compass Education
Compass Education, with its forecasts for 48 per cent compounded annual growth rate in EBITDA to the 2029 financial year, is right up these dealmakers’ alley.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Caps on overseas students are unworkable, ‘ridiculous’
The government’s own departments reckon putting caps on international students and what they can enrol in will be a bureaucratic nightmare.
- Julie Hare
The education method that’s made this family millions
When Charles and Colette Assaf bought a Montessori childcare business in 2000, the IT entrepreneur never expected it would become his family’s future.
- Yolanda Redrup
- Exclusive
- International students
Visa crackdown halves student numbers from India, Nepal, Philippines
The odds are stacking up against potential students from some major source countries as the number of approved visas slumps.
- Julie Hare
Overseas students cap will protect integrity of universities: Varghese
While the university sector reels from a raft of measures designed to limit net migration, there is growing support for caps on overseas student numbers.
- Julie Hare
Foreign students hit; Citi’s weightlifting fighter; $4.8m property tip
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
- Exclusive
- International students
Teal MPs seek softening of foreign student cap laws
Legislation to cap the number of international students will be debated this week – even as visa numbers are in dramatic decline.
- Julie Hare
June
Alffie, Open Colleges seek new owner; Blackpeak on sell-side
The two businesses are 80 per cent owned by Peter Murphy’s Melbourne family office, Pan Group.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
How Trump’s Green Card promise could disrupt Australian unis
Donald Trump wants international students to stay in the US after graduation and while his campaign insists this is a qualified promise, it will interest many.
- Julie Hare
