Labor’s international student cap an ‘unprecedented’ overreach and ‘recipe for chaos’, experts warn

is a “recipe for chaos” and the largest ever government overreach in Australia’s higher education system, leading policy experts have warned.

Labor wants to reduce net annual migration to 260,000 by 2025, in large part by tackling international student numbers, but immigration and higher education experts have fiercely criticised the “unprecedented” plans for a cap set by the minister. “It’s quite extraordinary and all about getting to the 2025 election,” he said. “The levels of intervention exceed anything I’ve ever seen in any other industry. This gives them the power to tell a business how many customers you can have, what they can buy from you and how much.

Andrew Norton, a professor in higher education policy at ANU, said a cap was the most “radical limits on student choice and university autonomy” he had witnessed., Norton wrote that the wide ministerial discretion of powers was entirely “new legal territory” and a “significant problem over-and-above the direct consequences of capping”.

“The level of ministerial discretion is unprecedented … the powers are there the mere possibility of their use changes the government-university relationship,” Norton wrote. “We’re competing … with universities across the world, and want to make sure the best and brightest have Australia and Sydney at the top of their list as a study destination.”

Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)

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