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Figures reveal foreign students disappearing
Bombshell new figures from a major Australian university reveal foreign students are getting visas into the country with work rights and then ditching their courses.
Queensland University of Technology said in its 2024 annual report nearly half of its foreign students had dropped out of their studies in their first year.
The retention rate for international students dropped to an unusual and historic low of 53.6 per cent because of an unusually high number of students who did not meaningfully engage from the outset, the report states.
International students comprise the largest demographic of foreign arrivals Australia.
Economists have said immigration is putting major pressure on the housing market, particularly rentals, as more people compete for accomodation, driving up prices.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been struggling to keep foreign arrival numbers down after they reached record levels in the first year of his term following the Covid pandemic.
It seems the battle is far from won with data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics showing that in February this year a new monthly record of 197,000 international students arrived in the country.
Under Labor, migration has, and will continue to put pressure on housing, infrastructure and services, Opposition leader Peter Dutton said.
A Coalition government will restore the dream of home ownership by cutting migration and starting a house building boom.
