Quick summary of that ABC piece on crashing Chinese student numbers: Australian universities are pulling the exact same move Australian manufacturing did years ago — they're offshoring.
For decades the unis built a fat revenue model shipping full-fee international students here at $50k–$60k a pop. Now that pipeline is drying up fast, they're rushing to set up joint programs, transnational degrees and offshore campuses across Asia. Same product, delivered cheaper and closer to the customer, with fewer costs onshore.
It's the classic neoliberal playbook: when the easy profits at home dry up, chase them wherever labour and overheads are lower. The cash cow that subsidised the whole sector is on life support, just like the factories before it. Local jobs, wages, and the character of our campuses pay the price.

#HigherEducation #AustralianUniversities #Offshoring #Neoliberalism #EducationForProfit

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-29/chinese-student-numbers-are-expected-to-take-turn-for-the-worse/106468846

RE: https://mastodon.social/@CelloMomOnCars/116306630079032691

Mark Carney is allowing Traitor Petro Princess Danielle Smith have jurisdiction over transboundary pollution, because Mark Carney is captured by the petro oligarchs.

#CdnPoli #CapturedGovernment #Neoliberalism

RE: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/british-columbia-i8sdok9nz/-/a-x10xTQQBTVuo7-uX_4etoA%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0

We chose to subsidize petro instead of funding education, forced post-secondary to rely on foreign student funds, then cancelled the foreign students. Now we have a preventable and predictable crisis in education that will negatively ripple across generations.

Welcome to neoliberalism.

#CdnPoli #Neoliberalism

Publicly owned #banking is key to breaking the back of #neoliberalism and #neofeudalism. I'm going to keep saying this until people start to understand it. Lending is a license to literally print #money, and the power to print money belongs in the hands of the trustees of the people, not in the hands of private, for-profit corporations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti-iUKQXwBI

#PublicBanking #Economics #MMT

LRT: This is what more than half a century of #neoliberalism and its #DivideAndConquer ethos has done to humanity.

The purpose of neoliberalism and #neofeudalism is to isolate people and make them dependent upon the system, bereft of anything that might ground them in reality, the better to make them into livestock, desperate to please the masters to ensure their next meal of fodder and a continued barn over their heads at night.

The vulnerable are always the first to fall, and never the last.