Australia looking for ways to allow foreign students to return

Jonathan Pearlman For The Straits Times In Sydney
Australia is desperately exploring ways to reboot its international education sector, including allowing vaccinated students from Singapore to re-enter or creating special student-only flights and quarantine facilities. The country’s international student sector was worth about A$40 billion (S$41.5 billion) in 2019, making it the fourth-biggest export. But the Covid-19 pandemic has caused incoming student numbers to plunge. New official data shows there are 374,000 foreign nationals holding student visas in Australia – excluding their dependants – against 580,000 before the pandemic.
Full text in the Straits Times