Australia's International Education Effort Enters a Shakeout Phase as Universities Cull Overseas Programs

Australia's enrollment of tens of thousands of fee-paying foreign students in arrangements administered by local universities but located outside the country looks set to be tested in the coming months by an unprecedented wave of institutional withdrawals from the overseas ventures.
The downward trend, which was first reported in The Australian newspaper, follows the collapse of the country's highest-profile overseas program to date, a fully fledged campus operation in Singapore that closed its doors in late June after fewer than half the expected number of students had enrolled for the first two semesters. The imminence of closures or cutbacks affecting dozens of similar, smaller partnerships and operations abroad has also been reported. [View Full Article]