{"id":146687,"date":"2025-09-16T05:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T05:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/146687\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T05:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T05:50:10","slug":"australian-universities-are-poorly-run-black-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/146687\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian universities are poorly run black holes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s universities are among the nation\u2019s most poorly run organisations.<\/p>\n<p>The number of international enrolments hit a record high of 839,200 in the year to June 2025. This was up around 13,400 (1.6%) from the 825,800 enrolments in 2024, around 130,440 (18%) higher than the same time in 2019 before the pandemic, and more than triple the 266,100 enrolments 20 years earlier in 2005.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/International-student-enrolments-YTD-June.png\" width=\"660\" height=\"419\" alt=\"International student enrolment data - June 2025\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s universities also have the second-highest concentration of international students in the world after Luxembourg:<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/International-student-share.png\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"International student concentration\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s universities are among the nation\u2019s most poorly run organisations. The number of international enrolments hit a record&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-146687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}