{"id":29803,"date":"2024-10-28T04:45:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T04:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=29803"},"modified":"2024-10-28T04:45:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T04:45:08","slug":"labors-international-student-caps-policy-is-wreaking-havoc-with-potential-for-more-than-1000-uni-job-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/10\/28\/labors-international-student-caps-policy-is-wreaking-havoc-with-potential-for-more-than-1000-uni-job-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor\u2019s international student caps policy is wreaking havoc with potential for more than 1,000 uni job cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Deputy Greens leader and spokesperson for Higher Education, has reacted to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2024-10-28\/international-student-caps-threaten-university-business-model\/104516926\"><u>reports&nbsp;<\/u><\/a>that over 1,000 jobs could be at risk at universities nationwide due to the government&#8217;s reckless international student cap legislation, which is before the senate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Senator Faruqi:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLabor\u2019s disastrous plan to introduce international student caps is wreaking havoc in the sector before they\u2019ve even come into effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf the prospect of more than 1000 uni job cuts across many universities during a cost of living crisis isn\u2019t enough to convince the Albanese Government that international student caps are a catastrophic mistake, nothing will.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRampant casualisation, wage theft and unsustainable workloads were already crushing staff, and now more than 1000 university workers stand to lose their jobs because of Labor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLabor should dump its disastrous international student caps bill and get rid of Ministerial direction 107 right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat universities need is a boost in funding and an overhaul of governance to prioritise staff and students in every decision, not these politically motivative crackdowns on international students.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Deputy Greens leader and spokesperson for Higher Education, has reacted to&nbsp;reports&nbsp;that over 1,000 jobs could be at risk at universities nationwide due to the government&#8217;s reckless international student cap legislation, which is before the senate. Senator Faruqi:\u00a0 \u201cLabor\u2019s disastrous plan to introduce international student caps is wreaking havoc in the sector before &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/10\/28\/labors-international-student-caps-policy-is-wreaking-havoc-with-potential-for-more-than-1000-uni-job-cuts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Labor\u2019s international student caps policy is wreaking havoc with potential for more than 1,000 uni job cuts&#8221;<\/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-29803","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\/29803","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=29803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29804,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29803\/revisions\/29804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}