Katharine Betts

Katharine Betts is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Sociology at Swinburne University of Technology.

Katharine's recent articles

The Crisis in the Overseas Student Industry: How should Government respond?

The Australian Population Research Insitute, Research Report, June 2020.

BOB BIRRELL AND KATHARINE BETTS. Australian universities' dependence on overseas students: too much of a good thing.

In November 2018 we published an analysis <http://tapri.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Final-overseas-student-revisited.pdf> of the higher education overseas student industry. It was framed around the remarkable growth in the share of commencing overseas university students to all commencing students over the years 2012 to 2016. This share increased from 21.8 % in 2012 to 26.7 % in 2016. Since publication, higher education statistics for 2017 have been released. They show <http://tapri.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Final-overseas-student-revisited.pdf> that the share of commencing overseas students to all commencing students have increased to 28.9 %. In the case of the Group of 8 (Go8) universities, by 2017 this share had reached well over 40...