Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Australian Greens Deputy Leader and spokesperson for Higher Education has responded to Labor\u2019s announcement that international student commencements will be capped at 270,000 in 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senator Mehreen Faruqi:\u00a0<\/strong> \u201cLabor and Minister Clare have arrogantly ignored the near unanimous opposition from the higher education sector and are charging ahead with this terrible policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe weak Albanese government is playing right into the fear mongering, dog whistling, racist agenda of the Coalition and putting migrants and international students in the firing line. It is disgraceful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf Minister Clare wants to do something about our universities, how about fully funding them, wiping student debt and dumping the disastrous job-ready graduates policy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAfter almost a decade of Coalition attacks, universities still can\u2019t get a break. Labor has proven to be a woeful disappointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Government needs to stop micromanaging universities and start funding them properly.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Australian Greens Deputy Leader and spokesperson for Higher Education has responded to Labor\u2019s announcement that international student commencements will be capped at 270,000 in 2025. Senator Mehreen Faruqi:\u00a0\u201cToday is a bad day for university independence, student choice and,\u00a0of course, for international students wishing to study in Australia.\u00a0 \u201cLabor and Minister Clare have … Continue reading “Labor ignores a mountain of evidence and near-unanimous opposition by charging ahead with disastrous international student caps”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28726,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28725\/revisions\/28726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u201cToday is a bad day for university independence, student choice and,\u00a0of course, for international students wishing to study in Australia.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n