Overseas students to cop a 25 per cent visa fee hike

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Latest UNIVERSITIES Overseas students to cop 25pc visa fee hike As both sides of politics pledge to cut international student numbers, Labor has announced a plan to cash in on visa applicants. By NATASHA BITA COMMENTARY Hungry for knowledge … and starving: poverty shouldn’t be uni rite of passage Trying to get ahead by studying at university shouldn’t be a recipe for poverty. By GEORGE WILLIAMS COMMENTARY Think smaller to deliver a bigger economic bang for $40bn taxpayer bucks Government, universities and businesses spend $40bn on research and development into products and services with mixed results. The solution may be to think small. By STEPHEN MATCHETT Plea for closer ties with industry An award-winning scientist has championed closer research collaboration between universities and corporate Australia. By NATASHA BITA EXCLUSIVE Mining and TAFE alliance to pile pressure on universities The mining industry is backing a new qualification that will challenge universities’ stronghold on bachelor degrees. By NATASHA BITA We think you might also like University boss discounts foreign student ‘phantom factor’ QUT’s vice-chancellor has blamed the poaching of foreign students by private providers as the reason almost half of its new international students dropped out or failed to show up. By JOANNA PANAGOPOULOS Coalition pledges $100m for Indigenous boarding schools The Coalition says ‘immense challenges’ face Aboriginal children living in remote communities, and has pledged to fund new boarding schools for hundreds of Indigenous students. By NATASHA BITA   NEWSLETTERS TODAY'S PAPER MIND GAMES THE AUSTRALIAN PLUS   Want to change how you receive these emails? Manage your newsletter preferences or unsubscribe from this newsletter. Sent by The Australian, GPO Box 4245, Sydney, NSW, 2001 Australia.