The higher education lobby’s screeching over the federal government’s planned modest caps on international student numbers has reached fever pitch.
Phil Honeywood, chief executive of the International Education Association of Australia, claimed the sector was being scapegoated for the nation’s runaway migration.
“At the end of the day, it comes down to us having no social licence to operate because our cohort does not vote, and so we’re the easiest sitting duck in the lead-up to a federal election to be hammered effectively”, he said.
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