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.
Among them are international students, who've been locked out of Australia because of border closures.
Before the pandemic, international education was Australia's largest services export sector, worth $40 billion.
But when borders closed and universities went online, that figure halved to just $22 billion.
It's hoped 2022 is more promising.
Already, 56,000 international students have arrived in the country since borders opened in December .
And another 50,000 have applied for new student visas.
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