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“ Today’s news that Australian universities are falling down international rankings shows the sector is failing even by its own standards,” said Jack Thrower, Senior Economist at The Australia Institute.“


It’s being called the “ seriously pathetic Bill Shorten effect “.

Barely a month into being a vice chancellor and already Australia universities are slipping behind the rest of the world!

Just like NDIS, everything he touches he ruins.

We dodged a bullet not elected him  as Prime Minister!

Is that a challenge?

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John Smith wrote on Jun 19^th, 2025 at 11:17pm:


Not unless you're held up as a measure of pathetic.

Australia’s top universities have defended the number of foreigners on campus, which at one sandstone institution exceeded the number of Australian students last year, as international education groups say not enough ­locals want to study STEM.

The Australian revealed on Thursday that international students accounted for one-third to one-half of all Australian-based students at the elite Group of Eight research-intensive universities, with 51 per cent of all ­Australian-based students at the University of Sydney coming from overseas last year.

Go8 chief executive Vicki Thomson said she would “make no apologies” for the fact that international students choose Go8 universities, and said there needed to be “more public investment, not fewer international students” if “we want to reduce reliance”.

Ms Thomson said nearly two-thirds of their international student cohort were postgraduate students, and there was a “distinct difference between under­graduate and postgraduate international students”.

She also said Go8 universities “set the highest English language requirements in Australia” amid official concerns from Jobs and Skills Australia over the lack of English language proficiency of some graduating international students.

At the University of NSW, 45 per cent of locally enrolled students came from overseas last year. Foreign students made up 40 per cent of local enrolments at the Australian National University, which has blamed falling inter­national enrolments for budget cuts, and 43 per cent at the University of Melbourne.

Higher education policy expert Andrew Norton said it was worth “questioning the judgment” of the University of Sydney in letting the number of inter­national students exceed 50 per cent of enrolments, as it represented a “symbolic tipping point”.

The University of Sydney said it had limited its growth “while pursuing increased diversity” and international students now represented 47.5 per cent of all students. It also said 35 per cent were undergraduates and 64 per cent were postgraduates.


Such massive scdle 'international education' is an absolute racket with no sign of abating.

Australia universities are nothing more than a back door immigration visas scam shops.

They are used by well off overseas students to gain entry to Australia via visas and subsequent permanent residency which then allows the rest of the family to apply to join them.

They are not and haven’t been for a long, long time focus on education or research.

They are simply there as a fancy overseas student school that charges big $$$ in return for Australian citizenship.