Julie Hare

When migration is no longer the cure for skill shortages, where does the country turn?

The $51 billion international education sector is bracing for a new wave of student visa rejections after the government’s signature migration plan was killed off.

Charlotte Young, who is studying at ANU, has been named the overall winner and rising star (under 25) of the Asian-Australian Leadership Awards.

In what looks like an act of one-upmanship, the Greens will promise to cancel all student debt, not just 20 per cent like Labor. Experts say the idea stinks.

‘Buffoonery as tyranny’ is Fintan O’Toole’s phrase for Donald Trump, and growing up in Catholic Ireland, tyranny is a concept the writer knows something about.

Parliament is yet to pass a bill allowing the government to limit overseas student places, but there is a lot of manoeuvring on the assumption it will go ahead.

The government has only two weeks to pass changes, which are due to start on January 1, before parliament ends for the year.

The comments from former higher education minister Kim Carr came as the central bank warned a limit on enrolments would hit exports but may not lower inflation.

The number of international students has hit a record, according to official data, even as overseas enrolments begin to fall amid new government restrictions.

With the introduction of student caps looming, desperate vocational colleges are using unethical practices to shore up numbers.