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International students still enquire at English-language school, but JobKeeper end spells job losses
Renan Marchesini and his wife flew into the Gold Coast on March 1, 2020 — just 19 days before Australia would close its borders to non-citizens and, in turn, cripple a $37.5 billion education industry dependent on international students.
Key points:
- Education for international students is Australia’s fourth largest export
- Private English-language schools have been hit hard, with a Gold Coast-based school losing 94 per cent of its students
- The end of JobKeeper and the lack of a clear timeline for the reopening of national borders hampers recovery
One year later, and the former São Paulo bank manager said “it was a totally different time in our life”.
“I made my stopover in Los Angeles and these things were getting crazy,” Mr Marchesini…
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