SYDNEY - Australia plans to start allowing foreign students to return from next month as part of a trial that will aim to reboot the country's lucrative international education sector.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SYDNEY - Australia plans to start allowing foreign students to return from next month as part of a trial that will aim to reboot the country's lucrative international education sector.
The Trade Minister, Mr Simon Birmingham, said the trial was designed to test whether students could be brought to Australia safely and would enable a greater number of enrolments for the next academic year. A previous plan in July to bring international students to Canberra was postponed due to the worsening situation in Australia for Covid-19.
But the toll could worsen, especially as government data has shown that foreign student visa applications have plunged in recent months. In the three months to the end of June, 45,155 people applied for such visas, compared with 117,303 people in the same period last year - a drop of more than 60 per cent. Some universities have already shed staff and scaled back other spending such as building works.
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