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University of Sydney vice-chancellor Mark Scott says Australian universities need to “consider the risk” that China will stop sending them students. Despite the uneasy relationship between Beijing and Canberra, Chinese students remain the largest group of overseas students in Australia and help make education one of the nation’s biggest exports. The international education sector was worth $37.5bn in the 2019-2020 financial year, with Chinese students accounting for $10.5bn of that. Mr Scott was asked on Wednesday what the higher education sector would do if the Chinese government were to “turn off the tap” of international students. He said his university...
