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Peter Hurley, Victoria University A series of recent announcements about Australia’s borders reopening mean there is hope of an end to the crisis in our international education sector. But there is still a long way to go. Over 145,000 international student visa holders are stuck overseas. It is still unclear …

Shutterstock Peter Hurley, Victoria University 2021 is shaping up as very difficult for universities, as well as the more than 130,000 people whose jobs rely on the international education sector. In October 2019 almost 51,000 new and returning international students arrived in Australia. In October 2020, this figure had fallen …