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Australian universities can’t rely on India if funds from Chinese students start to fall
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Financial risks
Educational finance
International students
Higher education
Australia
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Australia’s leading universities are now looking to India in search of new sources of international students. This comes amid worries they may have reached a “China max” – no more room for growth in Chinese students and numbers at risk of falling.
The question of whether India is a potential solution is something I looked at for my latest report published by the Centre for Independent Studies.
My research found Chinese students currently make up about one in ten students at Australian universities. They’re about 40% of the total international student intake. But that’s after a rapid period of growth that slowed dramatically in 2018 and has now come to a virtual standstill.
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The Conversation Media Group 2019
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CC BY-ND
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open
Post date:
21 Aug 2019
