University people smugglers outraged by education cleanout

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The benefits of the new international student caps are obvious:

Almost 150 tertiary colleges have been shut down for failing to show proof they were offering any training to students, figures have revealed.

The vocational education providers were closed down as part of a crackdown by the Australian Skills Quality Authority, targeting colleges that did not offer proof of providing courses in the past year.

Of the roughly 3800 training organisations in Australia, about 150 had been shut down by the federal government, while warnings had been given to a further 140 so-called “ghost colleges”.

LVO warned on these the moment Albo went to India and signed his atrocious open borders labour deals.

After two years, the government has been forced to shut down the criminal pipeline.

Not that the sandstone universities care that they have become little more than people smugglers:

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Some institutions, such as Sydney University, have already imposed hiring freezes in anticipation of a crackdown. Vice chancellor Mark Scott said caps were an “act of self-harm” based on “questionable” arguments, and suggested the policy was driven by populist politics.

Professor Scott denied international students were responsible for the national rental crisis, and ridiculed the idea government could force students to disburse across the country away from top-ranked campuses.

…Sharon Pickering, vice chancellor of Monash University, said she could not recall “a more uncertain time” for the sector, and dismissed Mr Clare’s claim about the caps being necessary to improve visa processing times.

…Canberra University chancellor Lisa Paul said while there had been a decline in public confidence, suggestions universities had lost their social licence was “over dramatising it”.

…University of NSW vice chancellor Attila Brungs said while he agreed the situation was not as dire as media headlines suggested, universities needed to become more responsive to feedback as community and student expectations and aspirations were constantly evolving.

Read the room.

The community is done with greedy professors trashing renters, crushloading infrastructure, destroying wage growth, debauching immigration, and wrecking pedagogy so that they can stuff their faces with cash.

About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.