Universities forced to face addiction to foreign students’ money
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#3It's not like they are refunding the tuition for this semester. Hopefully things will get better in the fall and the universities can reopen.
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#4$AU 18b of revenue. The goal was significantly smaller when things started. What this has done to tertiary education in Australia is a very mixed bag. I love that we teach people. I hate what it has done to the system overall. Also, NZ and other regional players are exasperated with how Australia marketed. We didn't make things easy for any other players and now its all crashing down, there are mutters of "good"
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#5It's not like they are refunding the tuition for this semester. Hopefully things will get better in the fall and the universities can reopen.
There are student associations that are asking for at least partial refunds. Here are recent examples in Baltimore [0] and Chicago [1]:
[0]: https://www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/bs-md-johns-hopkins...
[1]: https://chicago.suntimes.com/coronavirus/2020/4/3/21207613/u...
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#6It's not like they are refunding the tuition for this semester. Hopefully things will get better in the fall and the universities can reopen.
There are student associations that are asking for at least partial refunds. Here are recent examples in Baltimore [0] and Chicago [1]: [0]: https://www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/bs-md-johns-hopkins... [1]: https://chicago.suntimes.com/coronavirus/2020/4/3/21207613/u...
Same at my university, they are asking. The administration said, basically, “no way”.
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#7$AU 18b of revenue. The goal was significantly smaller when things started. What this has done to tertiary education in Australia is a very mixed bag. I love that we teach people. I hate what it has done to the system overall. Also, NZ and other regional players are exasperated with how Australia marketed. We didn't make things easy for any other players and now its all crashing down, there are mutters of "good"
> I love that we teach people.
> I hate what it has done to the system overall.
There are plenty of fine universities the scions of CCP members can attend in China that don't result in the long-term institutional destruction of your nation's educational system. "I love that we teach people" has all the meaninglessness of most feelings of charity, except the price you pay is losing a healthy, stable, focused university system for actual Australians.
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#8Alternatively, "global shutdown destroys export industry".
There is a debate as to whether education should be for profit at all versus purely state funded, but if it is private then normally an industry bringing in overseas money and customers would be celebrated.
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#9Obligatory clip from Yes Minister
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#10If it can subsidize native students, it's not a bad thing, what's needed is an enviroment in which cheating and political manipulation can be freely called out.