The boom in international education has seen students become commodities. It has also changed the way universities operate - chasing rankings and casualising teaching staffs. Margaret Simons on what would happen if the bubble burst.

Guest: Journalist and academic Margaret Simons.

Background reading:

China dependence by Australian Foreign Affairs

The Saturday Paper

The Monthly

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