Labor rejects report that international students will be capped at 40% of university enrolments
The education minister Jason Clare has rejected a report the government will cap international students at 40% of university enrolments,
Jason Clare on Thursday said Labor was “not intending” a cap of that size, and will help protect the “social licence” of the international education sector and not harm an “incredibly important national asset”.
International students, in a further effort to cut net immigration from 528,000 in 2022-2023 to 260,000 by 2024-25.
Universities and colleges will be limited to enrolling a maximum of 40 per cent of their students from overseas, with caps to be in place for two years and numbers based on 2019 figures.
Federal cabinet is to consider The principles around proposed Caps on foreign student enrolments, with specific limits for individual universities and colleges to be released in coming days.
But on Thursday, Education Minister Jason Clare rejected media reports claiming the cap would be 40 per cent.
