澳洲地方院校强烈反对总理限制留学生城市入学的建

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澳大利亚的地方院校表示:政府如果试图通过限制大城市中的外国学生数量来帮助地方院校招生,那么将事与愿违,地方院校反而会成为最大的输家,殷切希望政府提供激励措施帮助地方院校国际招生,而非采取强势监管。

今年九月,新总理斯科特·莫里森提出限制海外留学生在城市入学人数的想法。但南十字星大学(Southern Cross University)的副校长亚当·舒梅克(Adam Shoemaker)在黄金海岸校区举办的地方院校联系会议上表示,政府行政监管是不会起到积极作用的。

舒梅克教授在会上说:“(政府)不应该强迫学生们该去做什么 - 而应该给学生提供选择”。 “我们地方院校从未提议政府建立一个Bonegilla移民营(Bonegilla移民接待与培训中心是一个臭名昭著的战后难民安置集中营)。

2017年政府冻结教学补助金后,几乎没有其他收入来源的地方院校受到的打击最为沉重,因为地方院校服务于高等教育参与度较低,有大量尚未开发的需求的地区。

雪上加霜的是,教育部门的数据显示地方院校从国际学生的学费中获得的收入很少,仅仅吸引到3%的外国留学生, 而国际学费是澳大利亚所有大学仅有的不断增长的现金来源。

不过,地方院校也有城市分校还能吸引到有钱的海外学生。 Nous Group咨询公司的国际教育专家Jonathan Chew表示,如果政府限制城市学习签证,对悉尼大学和新南威尔士大学这样的城市大学影响不大,这些规模相对较小的城市分校将首当其冲,最先流失海外学生。

六个地方大学网络(Regional University Network)成员中有五个在悉尼设有校园或学习中心,四个在墨尔本设有分校,三个在布里斯班设有分校。中央昆士兰大学副校长斯科特鲍曼说,48%布里斯班校区学生,65%左右悉尼校区学生,85%的墨尔本校区都是海外学生。

鲍曼教授表示,莫里森总理提出的限制城市学生签证的建议,脑残到无可救药,会影响到澳大利亚第三大出口产业(教育业)。

“假设有必要调整政策,让人们走向偏远地区 - 为什么不拿旅游业说事?有太多国际游客在悉尼傻傻的盯着海港大桥看,逼他们全部去Wagga Wagga转转?

“来澳洲留学的中国,印度和尼泊尔学生希望去有本国社区的地方学习,会有社区支持带来的安全感。我们地方院校不是在与悉尼竞争 - 我们的真正竞争对手是伦敦,多伦多和奥克兰的大学。“

RUN成员大学校长在大会上纷纷表示,任何强迫国际学生来地方大学就读的尝试都会适得其反,最好的方法是突出强调区域社区的环境效益,低生活成本和就业机会。

据悉,莫里森总理办公室仍然被限制城市学习签证数量的建议所吸引。但是,内阁部长们正在努力打消这个想法,担心会因此让国际学生完全避开澳大利亚,破坏教育出口。

工党影子助理大学部长Louise Pratt表示,国际教育对政府干预“极度敏感”,政府的首要责任是“不对教育产业造成伤害”。

舒梅克教授说,奖学金可以吸引国内和国际学生到地区大学就读,过去学生助教可以获得的保税奖学金模式就很具有可行性。

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收费墙内的原文:

Australia’s regional universities are pushing for incentives rather than regulation to bolster their international enrolments, saying that they would be the biggest losers if the government tried to help them by capping foreign student numbers in the cities.

In September, the new prime minister, Scott Morrison, floated the idea of limiting overseas enrolments in urban areas as a way of steering more students into the regions. But Adam Shoemaker, the vicechancellor of Southern Cross University, told the Regional Universities Network conference at SCU’s Gold Coast campus that regulation would not help.

“It’s not about forcing people to behave in a certain way – it’s all about choice,” Professor Shoemaker told the conference. “We are not proposing a Bonegilla Migrant Camp,” he added, in a reference to a notoriously isolated post-war refugee resettlement facility.

Regional campuses were hit hardest by the government’s 2017 move to freeze teaching grants because they have few other sources of revenue and they cater to areas with low higher education participation – suggesting that they have substantial untapped demand.

Making matters worse, they earn little from international tuition fees – Australian universities’ only growing source of cash – with regional areas hosting just 3 per cent of the foreign students in the country, according to education department figures.

However, regional universities also have city branch campuses that attract big-spending overseas students. Jonathan Chew, an international education expert with the Nous Group consultancy, said that these relatively small operations – rather than big urban institutions such as the universities of Sydney and New South Wales – would be the first to lose students if the government limited visas for city study.

Five of the six RUN member institutions have campuses or study hubs in Sydney, with four boasting outposts in Melbourne and three in Brisbane. Scott Bowman, the vicechancellor of Central Queensland University, said that international students comprised 48 per cent of students at his campus in Brisbane, about 65 per cent in Sydney and 85 per cent in Melbourne.

Professor Bowman said that Mr Morrison’s proposal to limit visas for city study was an “absolutely daft” way to treat Australia’s thirdbiggest export industry.

“To say we’re going to tinker with that and try to get people out into the bush – why isn’t he saying that about tourism? There’s too many people in Sydney looking at the bloody Harbour Bridge; let’s get them all to go to Wagga Wagga?

“Our Chinese, Indian and Nepalese students want to go where there are communities and they’re going to feel supported. We’re not competing with Sydney – we’re competing with London, Toronto and Auckland.”

Other RUN vice-chancellors told the conference that any attempt to coerce international students to come to their universities would be counter-productive. They said that the best approach was to highlight the environmental benefits, low living costs and employment opportunities in regional communities.

Times Higher Education has been told that Mr Morrison’s office remains attracted to the proposal of capping visas for urban study. But Cabinet ministers are trying to water the idea down, fearing that it would sabotage education exports by making international students avoid Australia altogether.

Louise Pratt, Labor’s shadow assistant universities minister, said that international education was “incredibly sensitive” to government intervention, and that the government’s first responsibility was to “do no harm” to the sector.

Professor Shoemaker said that merit-based scholarships, modelled on the bonded scholarships once available to teaching students, could attract both domestic and international students to regional universities.

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没钱赚了

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把学校开农村去,收费增加三倍,校区提供吃喝拉撒一条龙服务

即带动农村经济发展,又能创收,还配合政府缓解城区人口拥挤带来的管理压力

多好的事情

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政客真是哪个行业赚钱就要想办法弄死那个行业,以前是矿业,现在是教育业

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不限制留学生也会变少。转不出来钱留什么学。

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配图容易理解。

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也算是支柱产业之一吧~




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莫里森以为留学生是非来澳洲留学不可吗

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好像还真是络绎不绝的来

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......

刷卡消费不行么?

房租也可以DEFT刷卡支付。



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还真不是。 两个叔伯的孙子们 一个去了英国 还有一个准备去加拿大。我力荐澳洲,人家说澳洲难移民。不考虑了。

汪洋大海由水滴组成,一个留学生不算什么。但是……比例高了,数额就大了。

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英国不更难移民?不过可以在英国加入木木教娶四个老婆,英国有好多介绍所,木木娶四个老婆的婚姻介绍所,合法存在。

加拿大可以自由吸大麻了。



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我们地方院校不是在与悉尼竞争 - 我们的真正竞争对手是伦敦,多伦多和奥克兰的大学。


自由党这个道理都不懂,还会搞经济?脑子进水了吗?

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我们地方院校不是在与悉尼竞争 - 我们的真正竞争对手是伦敦,多伦多和奥克兰的大学。

说的好。给目光狭隘的土澳敲敲警钟

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用脚投票的东西,澳洲就别秀下限了,政客

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英国的能不能移民 回国学历都比土澳的吃香 这是不争的事实

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简而言之,澳洲的大学在国际上缺乏竞争力,而且移民又困难重重,留学生倒流其他国家很正常。

论坛里应该不少小生意的老板们,有没有发现招留学生不好招了?

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Vice Chancellor应该翻成校长

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校长职能,副校长职称。

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这位校长太不了解亚洲(中国和印度)、太不了解自己



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这个职位就这么叫,而Chancellor仅仅是一个荣耀职位,还有一个Deputy Vice Chancellor才是中文习惯上的副校长。

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留學的目的是移民。留學生只是前鋒,然後父母會在澳置業,光刷卡是不夠的呀

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澳留学最大的吸引力是可以通过留学而移民,现在移民政策越来越紧,澳留学的吸引力在漫漫减退.拼学术拼不过美国,底蕴拼不过英国.就好好作死吧

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作吧,作到头了,政府自然会面对现实,调整政策。
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