Phoenix Weekly: Over 40,000 Chinese Students Urgently Need to Return to Australia — Local Logistics Can’t Keep Up. Is Studying in Australia Still Worth It?

On the first day after the Lunar New Year holiday, China’s Ministry of Education announced it would stop recognising overseas university degrees obtained through online remote study. For international students, the era of remote learning during the pandemic was coming to an end. Tens of thousands of Chinese students enrolled in Australian universities — who had been preparing to continue their studies online — had no choice but to travel to Australia before the start of the academic year.