Australia Rife with International Student ‘Ghost Colleges’ By James Reed

As detailed below, the Albo government lifted the cap on international student work hours, extended the length of time VET graduates could stay in Australia after finishing their courses, signed migration treaties with India, giving Indians five-year student visas and eight-year post-study work visas. The Albanese government had already increased the permanent migrant intake to record levels, and as an inevitable response, dodgy education agents, and scam "ghost colleges" have arisen to allow easy flow of Indians into Australia. The greatest housing and accommodation crisis in Australia's history is occurring, throwing ordinary Aussies on the street.

Leith van Onselen reports for Macrobusiness.com.au, that Indian students are one of the main drivers of Australia's record overseas migration. Indeed, as I see it, Australia is set on present trends to be a joint colony of China and India, our elites with their Asianisation doctrine have decided that Australia is up for grabs. The universities are going along for the ride. Most universities have orientation week this week, and I strongly suggest that people go to their local universities just to see what the future demographics hold. Do it at the busy time around mid-day, and in the middle of the week, be lawful. You will be surprised what is happening in these corrupt anti-Australian globalist places. It has moved far beyond just being about the Left and woke, and now really is the Great Replacement.

In my opinion, it is shameful what is being done to Australia, and what is even more shameful is that there are no mass protests outside of our traitorous universities. We need a movement which devotes attention to what these globalist, immigration-mad woke institutions are doing to this country. If Australians put up with this genocide (by the UN definition, these policies lower birth rates), then the political class will move to the next level of the Great Replacement.

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2024/02/australia-rife-with-international-student-ghost-colleges/

"Indian students are one of the primary drivers behind Australia's record surge in net overseas migration.

After the former Coalition Government lifted the cap on international student work hours and extended the length of time VET graduates could stay in Australia after finishing their courses, the number of Indian students arriving for work and residency skyrocketed.

The Albanese government then increased permanent migrant intake to record levels, increasing the likelihood of students obtaining permanent residency.

Labor also extended post-study work rights for international university graduates (which were rescinded this month), as well as signed migration treaties with India, which promise Indians five-year student visas and eight-year post-study work visas.

These policy changes have been a 'red rag to a bull' for non-genuine Indian (and other) students, dodgy education agents, and scam 'ghost colleges' that have flourished.

The below YouTube video by creator "Half as Interesting" explores the alarming proliferation of scam ghost colleges across Australia:

"This is 190 Queen Street in Melbourne, Australia, and while it looks unassuming, it's actually home to a solidly rated escape room and 20 schools that came to my attention because in the last few years, colleges started popping up all over Australia – colleges for ghosts".

"[There are] hundreds of them across the country. They are there to profit off international students without teaching them much while exploiting a massive loophole in Australia's immigration policy"…

"Australia didn't invent squeezing money out of international students, but they sure have made an art of it, which just about brings us to ghost colleges"…

Phil Honeywood, CEO of the International Education Association of Australia, warned this year that Australia's international education system has degraded into a "Ponzi scheme" for recruiting non-genuine students through migration channels (here and here).

This echoed the claims of Labor's federal member for Bruce, Julian Hill, who stated that Australia's international education industry had devolved into a "Ponzi scheme" by enticing international students with easy employment rights and permanent residency.

Hilariously, the solution from outgoing university lobby chief, Catriona Jackson, was to urge Australia's higher education sector to target students from Africa.

"I think we absolutely need to be looking at Africa because that's where the explosion of working-age people is", she said.

"So it's our job as countries who have one big asset here, a really strong education system, to make sure we're providing that in the best possible way".

According to a recent Navitas survey on study intentions, students from India and Africa choose a study destination based on their capacity to gain work rights, a low-cost course, and permanent residency:

Asia and Africa students care about working and migration, not education quality.

By contrast, students from these two countries care least about educational quality.

Instead of further lowering standards to attract African students, policymakers should focus on attracting a smaller pool of exceptional (true) students by raising financial barriers to entry, increasing entrance requirements (particularly for English language proficiency), and removing the clear link between studying, working, and permanent residency.

These reforms would improve student quality, increase export income per student, raise wages and working conditions in low-skilled jobs, and reduce enrolment levels to manageable and sustainable levels, thereby increasing quality and learning environments for local students while relieving population pressure.

To put it another way, international education should value quality above quantity.

Otherwise, Australia will face a repeat of the previous decade's rampant youth unemployment, wage theft, exploitation, and overpopulation in housing and infrastructure."