University World News - AUSTRALIA: The perils of commercialism: "More than two decades ago, the Australian government decided that international higher education should become an industry; since then it has become a major income producer for the nation. The higher education sector was motivated to make money from international education by government budget cuts, with revenue to be made up largely by entrepreneurial international activity.
One result has been the widespread and welcome internationalisation of both student and staff profiles and important initiatives to internationalise programmes. Another result has been that the prime goal of internationalisation has become money-making, largely driven by government under-funding."
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