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23 May 2012Foreign student told to go home for birth MORE public hospitals are closing their doors to intern...Foreign student told to go home for birthMORE public hospitals are closing their doors to international students, with Brisbane's Mater Mothers' Hospital joining the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital in denying them maternity service...
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22 May 2012Knight visa to cost the UK AUSTRALIA'S new post-study work visa could attract international enrol...Knight visa to cost the UKAUSTRALIA'S new post-study work visa could attract international enrolments at the expense of Britain, where policies have moved in the opposite direction, the UK Council for International Student Affairs has warned.U...
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22 May 2012Australia to benefit as Indians shun UK universities UNIVERSITIES are seeing falls of more than 3...Australia to benefit as Indians shun UK universitiesUNIVERSITIES are seeing falls of more than 30 per cent in applications from India in the first signs that foreign students are being put off coming to Britain by the government’s crackdown on mig...
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21 May 2012Groups baulk at capping international students A suggestion that capping the number of internatio...Groups baulk at capping international studentsA suggestion that capping the number of international students in Australia could improve educational quality is not winning support among related peak bodies. The International Education Association o...
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21 May 2012A suggestion that capping the number of international students in Australia could improve educational quality is not winning support among related peak bodies. The International Education Association ...
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21 May 2012A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit from an international student who claimed the ANU College mismanaged his academic course, gave him ''lots of homework'' and left him with poor grades.Hong Kong student Tak On Yee took the co...1 comment
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21 May 2012Andrew Robb predicts 10 million international students within 10 years KEY Coalition policy broke...Andrew Robb predicts 10 million international students within 10 yearsKEY Coalition policy broker Andrew Robb believes Australia's international student industry has the potential to grow to a mind-boggling 10 million students within 10 years,...
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21 May 2012International education can breath a sigh of relief as dollar heads down: Richardson ECONOMIST Ch...International education can breath a sigh of relief as dollar heads down: RichardsonECONOMIST Chris Richardson predicts the Australian dollar will revert to around 80 US cents over the next couple of years, easing pressure on the struggling intern...
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18 May 2012The number of young people applying for working holiday visas has increased, according to figures released by the Department of Immigration's Working Holiday
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17 May 2012The hard lesson of cuts in funding and declining student numbers is that not everyone accepts the business case for a greater focus on teaching Asian languages.