Australia enters 2026 with an unchanged migration cap, tighter skilled priorities, more student places and reforms triggered ...

SYDNEY, July 1 (Reuters) - Australia said on Monday it had more than doubled the visa fee for international students, the latest move by the government to rein in record migration that has intensified ...

Australia’s 2025–2026 Migration Strategy is often described as reform. A closer reading suggests something sharper. It marks ...

Australia’s new Ministerial Direction 115 has overhauled student visa processing by ranking applications based on the compliance record of education providers. With higher fees, tighter conditions, ...

A practical guide for Indian students on tuition fees, living expenses, work rules and everyday life in Australia before ...

Australia’s Department of Home Affairs may refuse a student visa application if an applicant fails to provide biometric ...

Nearly 50,000 student visa refusals are awaiting review by an Australian tribunal, amid a surge in appeals following tighter visa rules for international students. The backlog facing the ...

Australia has announced a new Ministerial Direction on student visa processing that will lower the visa priority level for education providers exceeding 115 per cent of their indicative annual ...

Australia has introduced a major change to the way international student visas (subclass 500) are processed, and thousands of prospective students — especially from India — are now wondering whether ...

Andrew Norton works for Monash University, which has strong Southeast Asian links and may therefore benefit more than other universities from the policy discussed in this article. After two years of ...

Education providers are accountable for agent performance, but they don’t currently have the tools needed to do the required proactive monitoring and ongoing management. They need a system that works.

For Indian students, the message was - international education remains valuable, but it's no longer a given. It's conditional ...