Students flood back to uni campuses

Tens of thousands of students are exploring their university campuses this week, as classes begin to return to face-to-face learning for the first time since the pandemic began.

Alysha Mohd Nizuaisham a second year RMIT Games Design student says she almost gave up & is glad she waited for the borders to open, loving life in Melbourne Source: SBS

Highlights

• Before the pandemic, international education was Australia's largest services export sector, worth $40 billion.
• When borders closed and universities went online, the figure halved to just $22 billion.
• Already, 56,000 international students have arrived in the country since borders opened in December; another 50,000 have applied for new student visas.

Among them are international students, who've been locked out of Australia because of border closures

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