Australian universities are relaxing entry requirements as demand softens from Chinese international students.

‘Golden window’:Elite unis relax entry standards to win back Chinese students

Competition to recruit Chinese students is intensifying,fuelling a long-running debate about falling academic standards and reliance on foreign student fees.

  • Lisa Visentin andSally Rawsthorne

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Indonesian student Arie Judanto chats to his friend with Wayne Pash after doing a yoga class.

The local legends helping isolated students feel at home

An anti-loneliness program aimed at international students has fostered unlikely friendships forged over footy,learning slang and meat pies.

  • Rachael Ward
Icons for the smartphone apps TikTok and WeChat are seen on a smartphone screen in Beijing (Photo:August,2020)

Scammers posing as Chinese cops target international students

The criminals claiming to be cops and government officials have swindled nearly $800,000 from four victims this month,police say.

  • Megan Gorrey

Melbourne’s worst-performing VCE school closed over child safety concerns

Families of international secondary students have had to scramble to find new schools after a CBD college’s registration was cancelled.

  • Nicole Precel andNoel Towell
Students want to know about employment outcomes,research opportunities and the effect on their career choices.

Lazy students are welching on our uni group assignments. It’s dragging down my marks

If a student isn’t at a level where they can pass a subject,they shouldn’t be able to sail by on the back of someone else’s work.

  • Saria Ratnam
Bill Shorten,full of sound advice

‘Morphine drip’:Shorten warns of international student addiction,calls for new tax to fund unis

In a major intervention on the future of tertiary education,Bill Shorten says the broken higher education system forces universities to act as migration levers rather than centres of research.

  • Rob Harris
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A bushfire map from NBC in 2013 suggested the entire country was going up in smoke.

What do migration debates and bushfires have in common? They both scare off foreign students

Government messaging must be consistent and disciplined because would-be students – and their governments – are reading.

  • Sally Rawsthorne
Immigration levels are higher than the government forecasts.

International students locked out of in-person hearings for visa appeals

The Albanese government wants to speed up tribunal reviews after being swamped with almost 50,000 cases of students contesting their visa rejections.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
International student Ariye Sunilkumar Monee says the high cost for her degree is worth it.

‘It’s worth it’:The shocking cost of degrees for international students

Ariye’s engineering masters degree will cost her $180,000 – and that’s on the cheaper end of the scale. Search our list.

  • Aidan Elwig Pollock,Craig Butt andSally Rawsthorne
Charles Sturt’s campus in North Sydney,which is operated by Navitas– a company owned by a private equity firm.

Who is really running the university campuses in CBD office blocks?

A Menzies Research report has suggested universities are facilitating “visa hopping” to effectively grant international students work rights.

  • Christopher Harris