{"id":13385,"date":"2023-12-06T01:03:25","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T01:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.educli.com\/blog\/?p=13385"},"modified":"2026-03-03T11:21:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T11:21:18","slug":"international-education-in-australia-big-changes-are-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.educli.com\/resources\/international-education-in-australia-big-changes-are-coming-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"International education in Australia &#8211; big changes are coming soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We participated in the International Education Symposium <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sympled.com.au\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SYMPLED2023<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> held 5 December 2023 in Sydney. Where international education in Australia was discussed at length. Pressure is mounting on the Australian government to curb net migration and international students.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Several speakers discussed the current situation in the international education market and the future steps for improvement and quality assurance. The Hon.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aph.gov.au\/Senators_and_Members\/Parliamentarian?MPID=86256\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Julian Hill MP<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> gave very open and informative information on the government&#8217;s direction regarding international education in Australia. It was discussed that the social impact of international education is the main focus of the upcoming government initiatives.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Here are the highlights of incoming changes in early 2024:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students numbers caps &#8211; specifically for no PR leading courses such as Business, Management and so on<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An increase of student visa application fees up to $2500 per application<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Removal of compulsory six months of study in the main courses<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Removal of onshore commissions<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Possible regulation of agents in Australia or complete removal of agents<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PR outcome value for courses<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Increased taxation of international students<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Student numbers<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The number of international students in Australia was 645,516 as of August 2023 \u2013 roughly 6% higher than the March 2020 total of 611,077. This year, there were also 250,000 graduated students on post-study work visas and \u201cpandemic\u201d visas subclasses 485 and 408 (the sc 408 visa was scrapped from 1 September 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are several atypical factors influencing the volume of international students currently in Australia, which include:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students who were in Australia in the pandemic who extended their stay through temporary policies;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Holders of sc408 COVID-pandemic visas extending to student visa;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students who, once borders reopened, came back to study in Australia as intended;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New international students.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Cap on international students visa?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shadow immigration minister Dan Tehan says the government has \u201cno plan\u201d for how to deal with the impact of record immigration, which he views as having a negative effect on Australian society: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe impact that it has on our transport infrastructure, the impact that it has on the environment, the impact that it has on housing, education, and news schools.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Macroeconomist Gerard Minack <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/policy\/economy\/australia-is-doubling-down-on-a-dumb-strategy-with-high-migration-20231122-p5elyh\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">concurs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, saying that<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201ca chronic lack of investment in the nation\u2019s infrastructure relative to population growth has been massively detrimental to living standards.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another economist, Chris Richardson, argues that the quickest way to curb migration numbers would be to stem the flow of international students coming to Australia. He appeared on ABC\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/finance\/economy\/australian-economy\/misery-machine-economist-chris-richardson-calls-for-lower-student-numbers-as-housing-crisis-deepens\/news-story\/3ac330cecdf72f4eee0351fe54f7cae8\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">QandA<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> this month and said: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u201cSo we have now 725,000 students from the rest of the world studying in Australia \u2014 a year ago, that was 555,000. Yes, we sell education to the world and a lot of that we do well and some of it we don\u2019t do as well, but it is a big part of the increase in the pressure at the moment and it is a relatively concentrated bit where we can make a change.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13387\" src=\"https:\/\/educli.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screen-Shot-2023-12-06-at-10.58.49-am-252x300.png\" alt=\"twitter post\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.educli.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screen-Shot-2023-12-06-at-10.58.49-am-252x300.png 252w, https:\/\/www.educli.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screen-Shot-2023-12-06-at-10.58.49-am.png 510w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But as Julie Hare and John Kehoe note in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Financial Review<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cMigration experts say [capping international student numbers] could be counterproductive. A raft of changes already in place should reduce arrivals by curbing corrupt and exploitative behaviours among some education agents and private colleges, and improving the quality of student arriving.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They quote Abul Rizvi, a former deputy secretary at the Immigration Department, who says: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThese factors suggest we have reached peak migration\u201d as \u201cthe co-called 408 COVID visas that 120,000 people are on expire over the next six to 12 months\u201d and given that there has been an 80% decline in the number of state-issued skilled and regional visas for the financial year.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reserve Bank of Australia governor Michele Bullock also told The Financial Review that migration to Australia may be about to \u201csettle down\u201d because the pandemic-related factors that boosted international student numbers are easing: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe\u2019ve got a situation where we\u2019ve had to bring in all these students that we didn\u2019t have for a few years, and none of them are leaving. Normally, they\u2019d be turning over and they\u2019re not. There\u2019s some sense in which the immigration thing is going to settle down as we start to see the normal flows in and out of the student population.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Should there be a special levy or tax for international students?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The idea of a tax was first proposed in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.education.gov.au\/australian-universities-accord\/resources\/accord-interim-report\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the interim version of the \u201cAustralian Universities Accord\u201d report<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This report was commissioned by the Australian government and is due to be released in February 2024. It comprises a series of recommended policies for the health of the Australian higher education sector. The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aph.gov.au\/Senators_and_Members\/Parliamentarian?MPID=86256\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hon Julian Hill MP<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> attests that<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201can international student tax is a near certainty.&#8221;.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In summary, the report estimates that a tax on international students\u2019 tuition fees could raise up to AUS$1 billion per year to help fund research and innovation in the university sector. But <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/author\/tim-dodd\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tim Dodd<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, writing in The Australian, says that the tax proposal has taken on new meaning, with<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8220;the tax on international students being like a cake that gets bigger the more you eat of it.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>More ideas to get more money from the international students<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Directors from the Australian policy think-tank the Grattan Institute, who firmly connect international student numbers to the housing crisis, have other recommendations for the government. In their dramatically titled opinion piece in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/immigration-is-smashing-renters-it-s-time-to-hike-fees-for-international-students-20231124-p5emma.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sydney Morning Herald<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u201cImmigration is smashing renters; it\u2019s time to hike fees for international students,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d the Institute\u2019s Brendan Coates and Trent Wiltshire propose:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Increasing student visa fees from AUS$710 to $2,500 to discourage students who would otherwise come to Australia for \u201ccheaper, low-value courses.<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d They prefer this option to an international student tax and argue that it \u201cwould raise some $1 billion a year which could fund support for vulnerable renters.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Raising minimum English scores for incoming students, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201ckeep cracking down on the dodgy providers of low-value courses, and limit visa jumping by students already in Australia by applying a new Genuine Student Test as recommended in the Parkinson review of the migration system.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMaking it less attractive for struggling students to stay in Australia after they graduate, by offering them shorter post-study work visas. Visa extensions for graduates with degrees in nominated areas of shortage, and for living in the regions, should be scrapped, and visa extensions only offered to those earning at least $70,000 a year. These changes would result in about 140,000 fewer international students and graduates in Australia by 2030 than under current policy.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAbolishing rules that allow [working holidaymakers] to extend their stay if they work in regional areas\u201d and limiting their visa to one year.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>What are the other countries doing about international students?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The current situation bears a strong resemblance to the 2010s in the UK, when anti-immigrant sentiment was rising. In 2014, then-Home Secretary Theresa May restricted post-study work rights for international students in an effort to curb net migration. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk\/resources\/briefings\/student-migration-to-the-uk\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Migration Observatory<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> reports that \u201cWork visa grants to non-EU former students fell by 84% from 2011 to 2020, before the decision to re-introduce post-study work rights in 2021.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Observatory has a telling graphic illustrating the correlation between Ms May\u2019s restriction of work rights and Indian student numbers in UK over time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13388\" src=\"https:\/\/educli.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/aus1.jpg-1-300x152.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.educli.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/aus1.jpg-1-300x152.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.educli.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/aus1.jpg-1-600x305.webp 600w, https:\/\/www.educli.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/aus1.jpg-1-768x390.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.educli.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/aus1.jpg-1.webp 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New international students in UK universities 2006\/07 to 2020\/21. Source: The Migration Observatory<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Observatory has another fascinating graphic showing the correlation between the years in which Ms May restricted international student work rights and the years in which the UK began losing market share of global tertiary students (to Australia, Canada, and China).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13389\" src=\"https:\/\/educli.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/AUS2.jpg-300x156.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.educli.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/AUS2.jpg-300x156.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.educli.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/AUS2.jpg-600x312.webp 600w, https:\/\/www.educli.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/AUS2.jpg-768x399.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.educli.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/AUS2.jpg.webp 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The UK\u2019s share of global tertiary students 1998-2019. Source: The Migration Observatory<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">International students, despite their massive contribution to the economies of the countries in which they study, are commonly the most affected when governments attempt to curb migration. As the Migration Observatory observes in its analysis of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk\/resources\/reports\/why-are-the-latest-net-migration-figures-not-a-reliable-guide-to-future-trends\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">likely migration flows to the UK to 2030<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOf the categories in our model, work and study are the ones that are most amenable to policy changes. Policymakers interested in shaping net migration levels in either direction are thus likely to find more impact in these categories. Indeed, work-visa policy is likely to be the main factor affecting the contribution of both work and study to long-term net migration, since students usually need to switch to work visas in order to remain in the UK permanently.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">International education is Australia\u2019s largest service export, and the contribution international students made to the economy through direct spending on tuition and living expenses that benefits multiple sectors outside of education amounted to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/universitiesaustralia.edu.au\/media-item\/international-education-adds-29-billion-to-the-economy\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AUS$29 billion in 2022<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This contribution can only have risen in 2023 given that the number of students is now higher than in 2019, a year, incidentally, when the economic impact of international students in Australia was AUS$40 billion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>It didn\u2019t take long for the Australian government to mess up international education again\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The international student numbers increased once Australia\u2019s border reopened to allow people back into the country in December 2021. The number of foreign students holding Australian student visas now exceeds the pre-COVID numbers. The surge of foreign students in Australia is becoming a lightning rod for politicians courting voters who want to see immigration levels lowered in the ntext of skyrocketing rental fees and house prices. Australia\u2019s international education sector is bracing for Home Affairs Minister Clare O\u2019Neil\u2019s much-anticipated migration review, expected to be released in December.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These dynamics are unusual, and their cumulative effect will weaken international education in Australia for a number of reasons. It is looking ever-more likely that there will be a new raft of policies that could affect the following for international students interested in studying in Australia:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The price of education;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The cost of applying to Australian schools and universities;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Post-study work rights;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Increased visa fees;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Caps on students visas<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Higher taxation of international students;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clearly, much is at stake for Australia\u2019s international education sector. We can only hope that the industry will be invited to the discussions and challenge the government strategies that will have a negative impact on international education in Australia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sources: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/monitor.icef.com\/2023\/11\/international-education-a-focal-point-of-debate-in-australia-as-the-prospect-of-further-regulation-looms\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ICEF MONITOR<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/politics\/federal\/australia-has-reached-peak-migration-20231124-p5emk8\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Financial Review<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk\/resources\/reports\/why-are-the-latest-net-migration-figures-not-a-reliable-guide-to-future-trends\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Migration Observatory UK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/immigration-is-smashing-renters-it-s-time-to-hike-fees-for-international-students-20231124-p5emma.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sydney Morning Herald<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/finance\/economy\/australian-economy\/misery-machine-economist-chris-richardson-calls-for-lower-student-numbers-as-housing-crisis-deepens\/news-story\/3ac330cecdf72f4eee0351fe54f7cae8\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ABC Q and A<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We participated in the International Education Symposium SYMPLED2023 held 5 December 2023 in Sydney. 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