Salvatore Babones

Salvatore Babones is an associate professor at the University of Sydney. He writes extensively on public policy issues, and is a widely-cited commentator on higher education. He is currently researching a book on Australian immigration policy.

For Australia’s universities, over-regulation is the price of virtue signalling

Australia’s universities say they are over-regulated—and the chief executive of Universities Australia (UA), Luke Sheehy, has just secured a promise from education minister Jason Clare to give his members a break.

It’s Back to Canberra, not Back to School, for Education Bureaucrats

By Salvatore Babones It’s back to school this week for most of Australia’s 1.5 million university students—and back to Canberra for Australia’s top 1000 education bureaucrats.

University financial claims are full of self-serving errors

Universities Australia (UA) has published its pre-budget submission, and it opens with the claim that its members educate “1.5 million Australians every year”. That is incorrect. They educate roughly 1.5 million people every year—of whom only about 1 million are Australian. The rest (roughly one-third of the total) are international students.

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