The 2021-22 budget has added salt to universities' COVID wounds

By Andrew Norton, Professor in the Practice of Higher Education Policy, Australian National University

The federal government’s budget announcements this week included nothing new for universities — an industry hit particularly hard by the pandemic border closures and loss of international students.

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg on Tuesday night confirmed Australia’s border is likely to remain closed until mid-2022. Research from the Mitchell Institute found a third academic year of few new international students…

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