As international educators went about their work creating positive change in the world, far away in Canberra a Senate committee was sitting down to hear from sector experts.
At stake: the short-term future of Australian international education, as the Government works towards making major changes to the way international education works in Australia.
As Alec Webb remarked in his opening comments: “If our global competitors were to design a Bill that undermines the jobs, reputation, competitiveness, and the global market share built up by Australia’s higher education sector, it would be this Bill.”
There were dozens of other forthright, cutting observations (catch the best ones in this article in The Koala News).
Major changes like this come along every decade or so, and the changes proposed have the potential to upend decades of positive progress in both Australian international education and soft power.
With so much at stake, Dirk Mulder (editor, The Koala News) and Rob Malicki (CEO, The Global Society) are putting out this special deep dive analysis of the Senate hearings - so get up to speed quickly with what went down and what it means for our sector.
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