For quite some time, we at @Navitas have been talking about the post-pandemic v-shaped recovery and catch-up rebound for international education. I've seen enough data to show that this is indeed how the recovery has played out.
@GavinMoodie@MattBrettLTU @SCUonline USC different from SCU but the point still stands. The reach of @usceduau is remarkable especially with its new campus in Petrie. I too enjoy dropping in on university campuses on holiday @MattBrettLTU - you’re not alone!
See you at AIEC this week. Looking forward to sharing the results of our Global Student Flows Model. Building off a decade of modelling by the British Council, my colleagues @ethanfog and Moji B have done an amazing job casting forward tertiary student flows.
Canada now has quite some work to do to deal with these three threats — unbalanced growth, overheating migration, and the turning on of taps — before too much damage is done to an otherwise thriving international education sector.
CBC's Fifth Estate released a sobering story on international students in the Canadian career college sector. Worth watching: https://t.co/0ybQRKgcgO or reading: https://t.co/3Lwig7OPTF
This follows another concerning report a few months ago: https://t.co/6l1XAKXFku
Threat 3: Turning on taps after COVID-19 — what we've seen in 2021-22 is an extraordinary rate of growth. For the most part, this growth hasn't been driven by "digging wells": improvements to the product offering, the student experience, and employment outcomes.
"Citizenship is the best expression of that commitment and Tamworth is a great place to celebrate it. Tamworth is a living proof that Australia is, at heart, nation of immigrants." Speech from a Citizenship Ceremony Tamworth 3/3 https://t.co/KvK0OeANPt
On the theme of citizenship, a final quote from PM Hawke 26 Jan 1989: "The way you look, the way you dress, the faith you observe, the place you were born they are all important things but they are irrelevant to the question of whether you are a fair-dinkum Australian."1/3
"What is relevant is your commitment to our parliamentary institutions, to the rule of law, to freedom of speech, to our values of tolerance and a fair go for all in short, your commitment to Australia." 2/3