The federal government will make it harder for international students to bring their families with them to Australia, among other changes.
- Professor and Director, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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The most recent data shows the total number of international students living in Australia is slightly lower than what it was before lockdowns.
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About 100 early childhood experts are meeting in Canberra today for a national summit on children who are five and under.
Applications for student visas are also at record levels, according to the latest data.
The system has several elements and many problems. Making it fit for purpose will take a lot of work and even more resources than those that have just been announced.
Cutting the cost of childcare for families won’t help them if there are no places available at local childcare centres or people to staff them.
The Mitchell Institute mapped childcare availability across the country and found regions where demand rarely met the supply. They also looked at cost and workforce participation for women.
Many employers are waiting just as anxiously as universities for international students to return to our shores. The students’ labour is especially important for the hospitality and care sectors.
Australia’s major competitors in the international education market are already rebounding from the pandemic and have issued record numbers of student visas.
A new report calls for a federal strategy and package of support for the sector to reduce the risk of transmission among the one million unvaccinated children attending childcare and pre-school.
Hopes are rising that international students will be back in Australia early in 2022, but that doesn’t mean the education sector will be able to shrug off the impacts of their absence any time soon.
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