RMIT Vice-Chancellor interviewed about proposed international student caps

RMIT Vice-Chancellor interviewed about proposed international student caps

In his recent media interviews, Alec Cameron advocated for a managed system for sustainable growth, aligned with the Australian Universities Accord reforms.

RMIT Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Alec Cameron spoke with Julie Hare from the Australian Financial Review, Caitlin Cassidy from The Guardian and Tim Dodd from The Australian about the university’s response to the federal government’s Draft International Education and Skills Strategic Framework.

In the interviews, Professor Cameron advocated for a managed system for sustainable growth, aligned with the Australian Universities Accord reforms.

“If we need to reduce net migration in the short term, then a better way to handle it would be to allocate a quota by institution rather than leaving it to individual visa offices around the world,” he told the AFR.

Professor Cameron said the sector needed certainty and clarity, especially as universities recover from the pandemic.

“Three-quarters of the sector is seriously underwater," he told The Australian.

“But given we’ve been experiencing restrictions in terms of visa approvals for at least six months in an unmanaged way, the prospect of that being managed by the department of education is preferable from home affairs exercising a heightened level of visa refusals,” he said in an interview with The Guardian.

You can read more about RMIT’s submission here.

08 July 2024

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