#Australian Higher Education

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2025 Trends: Expanding Opportunities and Caps in Australian Higher Education

As the global education landscape evolves, Australia continues to be a favored destination for international students. In 2025, we are witnessing a significant shift in the policies of Australian universities regarding international student intake. While 23 universities are actively boosting their intake, 15 others are reducing their caps. This dual approach reflects the diverse strategies institutions are adopting to navigate the complexities of global education.

 The Rise in International Student Intake

1. Growing Demand for Education

The demand for quality education in Australia remains robust. Factors such as the country’s high academic standards, multicultural environment, and post-study work opportunities make it an attractive option for students worldwide. In response, 23 universities have decided to increase their international student intake, aiming to enhance their global presence and diversify their campuses.

2. Strategic Partnerships

Many universities are forming strategic partnerships with institutions in other countries, creating pathways for students to study in Australia. These collaborations often include joint programs and exchange initiatives that facilitate a smoother transition for international students.

3. Enhanced Support Services

To accommodate the influx of international students, universities are investing in enhanced support services. This includes academic advising, mental health resources, and cultural integration programs, ensuring that students feel welcomed and supported throughout their academic journey.

 The Reduction of Caps by 15 Universities

1. Quality Over Quantity

While some universities are expanding, 15 institutions are opting to reduce their international student caps. This decision often stems from a commitment to maintaining the quality of education and ensuring that resources are not overstretched. By limiting numbers, these universities can provide more personalized attention and support to each student.

2. Focus on Local Enrollment

Some universities are shifting their focus towards local students, aiming to strengthen community ties and support domestic education. This approach may involve reallocating resources to enhance programs and services for local students.

3. Adapting to Market Changes

The education market is dynamic, and universities must adapt to changing trends. Economic factors, visa regulations, and global events can influence international student enrollment. By reducing caps, some universities are positioning themselves to respond more effectively to these changes.

Conclusion

The contrasting approaches of increasing and reducing international student caps among Australian universities in 2025 highlight the complexities of the higher education landscape. As universities navigate these challenges, they must balance the need for growth with the commitment to quality education and student support.

For prospective international students, this is an exciting time to explore opportunities in Australia. Whether you’re considering a university that is expanding its intake or one that prioritizes quality, there are numerous pathways to achieving your academic goals in this vibrant country. As always, thorough research and preparation are key to finding the right fit for your educational journey.

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Nepalese Students in Australia: Why Australia is the Preferred Study Destination

Australia has become a top destination for Nepalese students seeking higher education abroad. With over 46,000 Nepalese students studying in Australia as of 2020, the country offers a safe, welcoming, and student-friendly environment. Major cities like Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Perth are particularly attractive due to their livability, climate, and cultural diversity.

Nepalese students benefit from Australia's high-quality education, affordable tuition, and work opportunities, including the 40-hour fortnight work provision and the Post-Study Work (PSW) visa. Popular courses include IT, Business, and Nursing.

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(via Australia Increases Financial Requirements for Student Visas in 2024)

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Australia’s international education system has become a “Ponzi scheme” in which overseas agents are paid bonuses to lure foreign students with the promise of full-time work, a parliamentary inquiry has heard.

The chief executive of the International Education Association of Australia, Phil Honeywood, on Tuesday said universities were offering bonuses to education agents on top of commissions to funnel students to their courses.

He told the inquiry that sometimes money was being “handed in an envelope under the table” to unregulated agents who directed young people into courses that didn’t suit their talents or skills.

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Honeywood said the practice had been exacerbated by the previous federal government removing the cap on the number of hours international students could work. This had attracted “ballooning numbers” of “non-genuine” applications from south Asia, particularly India and Nepal, the inquiry heard.

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AUSTRALIAN JEWS - CALL OUT! 🇦🇺

On Friday this week (23 August 2024) submissions close for the Senate’s inquiry into Antisemitism at Australian Universities. It is vital that people who are concerned about antisemitism on campuses have their say because there are many people in the Parliament and on the Committee examining this matter, particularly in Labor and the Greens, that do not believe this is a problem and will argue for no action to be taken. If you remain silent then you are not adding your voice to this matter of the utmost importance – the rising tide of antisemitism in our country. You can make a submission here. I encourage you to make even a short submission and the three things you should focus on are;

Your belief that antisemitism on campus was a major problem before October 7 and has grown exponentially since;  

That the problem is not limited to one university but is a scourge across the entire higher education sector; and  

That only a judicial inquiry, with the power to compel witnesses, seize documents, provide immunities, with an ability to take evidence in camera so that witnesses are free from reprisals, will be sufficient to achieve the cultural change the university sector needs to properly deal with antisemitism.

Our community, and the future of Australia’s higher education sector needs you to speak up NOW!

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WHY IS COLLEGE SO EXPENSIVE OVER THERE?! Like do they promote a higher education or just be like nah fuck it you don’t wanna be in debt?!

IS THIS WHY THEY ARE SO INSANE FOR SPORT SCHOLARSHIPS?!

*concerned Australian noise*

oh no you basically HAVE to go to college unless you have a really specific career path like hair stylist (different schooling) or mechanic or taxidermist

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I'm a big fan of localisation. I believe the goal of a translation should be to keep as much meaning and nuance as possible from the original. Localisation is key to this. Language and culture are inextricably linked, which means you must engage in cultural education and/or localisation to successfully translate. Cultural education is preferable, but in many cases it is not appropriate (not great having to pause every few seconds to read a translator note when you want to turn your brain off and watch a show). However, I think sometimes, translators take the wrong approach to localisation, and I want to talk about that here.

There was an example of "bad" localisation given by a twitter user in this Sarah Moon video: the example was anime characters subbed to use zoomer slang like "sus" and "cringe". I actually think that is an example of good localisation. I am not talking about that kind of thing.

This scene from 深夜食堂 (Midnight Diner) made me want to write this post. パチンコ has been translated as "pinball". I'm sure there are people reading that translation and cringing, just like I did! I tried to put my finger on what irked me so much about it and I realised: this localisation is localising the wrong part of the meaning of パチンコ.

Part of localising is choosing the closest cultural equivalent of a concept. This inevitably means losing some of the specific details of the original word, but usually those details aren't important (if the whole cultural concept is important, you should probably just use a translator's note IMO). For example, the word パチンコ has lots of bits of meaning in it: "gambling" "played on a machine", "time killer", "uses small metal balls", "generally played by older men", "big flashy lights", "money sink", and so on. In this context, the character is talking about "winning money" from パチンコ, so you'd expect at the very least that the localised word would preserve the "gambling" and "money sink" bits of meaning. However, instead they chose to preserve the "small metal balls" and "big flashy lights" bits of meaning (まさかの！). This is a very silly choice because those bits of meaning don't have a shred of relevance to this scene, or any other scene in this story at all. I can see a context in which "pinball" is the best possible localisation for パチンコ. But this was not it, and not even close. I've never heard of anyone winning money from pinball.

I think if I were a translator, my process for localisation would be to break down the word into those bits of meaning, then rank the bits of meaning in terms of relevance to the line/scene/story, then pick a localised word that hits as many of the higher ranked meanings as possible. In this case, there are many better localisations (read: localisations with meanings more relevant to the scene). If I were localising it, I would probably do this: "He took all the money I won from the pokies." but I am aware that pokies is an Australianism. Assuming I was localising for a global english speaking audience: "He took all the money I won from a slot machine".

(TBH though, I don't think パチンコ needs to be localised because the english equivalent loanword, pachinko, is already well known enough to be used in english subtitles imo)

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Today, Australia is voting in a referendum on the Voice to Parliament: an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander advisory body, enshrined in our constitution, that will give our First Nations peoples a say on policy that affects them. A Voice would be the first step in Australia reckoning with its history: a history which has so far ignored and silenced — often violently — the voices of the oldest living culture on the planet.

It is not lost on me that I am a non-indigenous person being asked —again — to weigh in on the future of indigenous Australians. I don’t take that lightly, nor am I sure whether a referendum is right for this. I would have felt perfectly comfortable with a Voice being enshrined without my input. Maybe that would have spared my indigenous friends the emotional toll of begging for political recognition.

But it is the way it is, so I’m voting Yes. I’m voting Yes on Wurundjeri land. Stolen land. Land where I live the kind of comfortable life out of reach for many indigenous Australians.

I’m voting Yes because it’s time for real reconciliation.

And I’m voting Yes because here hasn’t been a single argument from the No camp that I could square with doing the right thing. They say the Voice will divide Australia, but Australia is already divided. They say it will give indigenous Australians an unfair advantage. It won’t, but it will hopefully start undoing the years of unfair privilege white Australians have had in deciding their fate. The No camp has told us, “If you don’t know, vote no,” as if that’s an acceptable thing for our country’s civic discourse. As if the answer to not knowing is not to find out, not to ask questions, not to make an informed decision weighed by evidence.

They say indigenous Australians don’t want it. The polls say eighty percent of them do.

In all areas related to quality of life, non-indigenous Australians are leaps and bounds ahead of the people that lived on this land first. Indigenous Australians aren’t living as long as non-indigenous Australians. They are being incarcerated in disproportionate numbers. They don’t have the same access to high quality education. Domestic violence and sexual abuse rates are disproportionately higher in indigenous communities. The economy, housing, employment…the list goes on and on and on and the stats remain dire.

We are already living in a No world. It isn’t working.

It’s time for a change. I don’t know if we’ll get it. I’m fearful that we are too conservative and too selfish a nation to take this one small step, but I hope desperately when I wake up tomorrow we will have said, “Yes. Have a seat at the table. It’s long overdue.”

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yeah that totally makes sense, that’s more what I was getting at that the net result is less overt misogyny since it’s not as acceptable. I think I’m a little confused on what you mean by society vs culture? also hope you are well and thanks for calling out the racists, I’m sorry you’re dealing with gross rude people ://

when i differentiate society & culture, im arguing that typically differences in levels of misogyny are not due to cultural differences but rather societal development in recent history. for example, christian cultures (such as western europe’s) also allowed marital rape, made exceptions for rapists who marry their victims (& this is still allowed in some parts of the west), allow child marriages (& in many places that is still allowed), did not allow women to have any autonomy ie no bank accounts no ability to join the workforce no ability to get into higher education etc. these are just a few examples off the top of my head. but for this reason, i reject the argument that western cultures are simply less misogynistic whereas eastern cultures are simply more misogynistic.

instead, i believe that western societies were under significantly better conditions which then allowed them to push for more social progress whereas many eastern cultures were being colonised, enslaved, exploited, relentlessly bombed, etc and some are still facing such a reality today. as a result, while western europeans & (US) americans & canadians & australians (& insert other colonial populations here) were able to socially progress due to being in ideal economic conditions & due to them not being actively exploited & destabilised by foreign nations, other parts of the world have been stuck in poverty and/or perpetual wars and/or under extreme dictatorships which have been empowered by the west. i reject the idea that i come from a “more misogynistic culture” & i reject the idea that westerners come from “less misogynistic cultures”, bc i dont think the actual difference in social progress is because of one culture being simply more misogynistic than another. as an example, you can look at many of the most extreme examples of misogyny such as what u can find in iran & afghanistan, then look at how they were living in the 50s or 60s. did their culture magically change since then? no, but the conditions of their nations changed and that was in part influenced by western interference which then empowered extremely misogynistic islamist parties which then resulted in them going backwards socially rather than progressing forwards.

thats what i mean: social progress being further in the west isn’t a reflection of western cultures being less misogynistic, it’s a reflection of their populations being in better conditions than other parts of the world.

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Miscellaneous Star Wars headcanons :3

((This aint all of them but we’d be here forever if i put all of them))

Ahsoka grows to be taller than Anakin (yes Anakin is offended by this)

Anakin’s first language isn’t Basic (its not even his second its like 4th. Outer Rim folk don’t speak a lotta Basic)

Tatooine is like Australia, Colombia and Texas combined SO the accent is Australian, Colombian and Texan combined. Luke’s Tatooine accent leans harder on the Texan side. He says howdy :)

Leia studied former politicians from the Pre-Empire days (because Bail wants his girl to be EDUCATED) and accidentally ends up learning a little about Padmé.

Leia’s first words would’ve been mama if Padmé and Anakin had gotten to raise their child

Luke felt isolated as a kid, even though he was very social. Partly because kids found him weird, partly because ‘Skywalker’ is a slave name.

Obi Wan doesn’t find it gross that Anakin eats bugs, he finds it gross Anakin eats RAW UNSEASONED bugs. So uncivilised

The Clones on Kamino have hug piles. (They need comfort ok)

Rex cries a lot in private.

Even though Aalya and Luminara are a few years older than Anakin, Anakin befriended them really quickly became friends :)

Canonically Anakin is a really good artist but doesn’t show people SOOOOooo the headcanon is Obi Wan finds a sketch of him one day by Anakin while cleaning up after Anakin’s mess in his room and loves it so much he hands it in how own room.

Padmé proposed to Anakin

Padmé gets just as jealous as Anakin, she’s just not as melodramatic and can destroy people with words

Anakin smokes from time to time (don’t tell Obi Wan or Padmé they will kill him)

Obi Wan had 0 spice tolerance before living on Tatooine and had to build it up when he started living there

Anakin, Leia and Luke are all autistic

Han is surprisingly good at mingling with ‘the higher ups’ during politics dinners/parties with Leia

Shmii was a lil bit Force sensitive and helped shield Anakin when he was little

Padmé experienced prenatal depression and didn’t tell Anakin. Or anyone.

Shmii and Anakin couldn’t write and Anakin only knew how to read a few words. Anakin learnt when he was taken to the temple

Togruta’s yawns like a snake. When Ahsoka yawned infront of Rex for the first time his soul left his body

Yoda hunts frogs in the ponds within the Temple. Little Dooku saw him donit once. No one believed him

Owen mumbles to Cleigg and Shmii while he works like they’re still alive and with him

Shmii would tell Owen tales of what Anakin was like

Both Leia and Anakin make attempts to befriend any droids they meet. Its polite :)

Luke would dig for bugs with Beru and they’d pan fry them for dinner

Vader heard so much gossip because officers and stormtroopers just assumed he wasn’t listening to their whispering.

Ahsoka is banned from any and all kitchens because she burns 99.99% of everything she cooks

Shaak Ti had to babysit lil Anakin once and found him delightfully courious

Anakin swears in Hutesse to get away with it infront of Ahsoka. Ahsoka figures it out and starts repeating after him.

Anakin is banned from 501st game nights because he’s too competitive

Obi Wan experienced really bad nightmares after Qui Gon’s death for months

Anakin thrives in disfunction

Leia never really allowed herself to properly mourn her parents. Breha and Bail always plagued her mind.

Padmé is a dancey drunk. Anakin finds this hilarious