According to a Chinese academic friend, Australians are largely regarded as fat and lazy, and our universities are already bottom choice, with most students preferring China/ Singapore/ Us and Uk.
Kids come to Australia if they can’t get in somewhere better.
The social control of those students is pretty intense.
Despite that, l have it from a Monash staff member that Monash wants to see( and is recruiting) 5-10,000 extra students in every year over the next 5 years( so 25,000 extra in five years- currently around forty thousand;was thirty thousand about 6-7 years ago).
More than one faculty have been told they are failing too many students- the administration requests that they lower their standards so these students get what they are purchasing is the implication.
It’s a disaster really, and undermines the efforts of other really bright and hardworking students.