Short term opportunity for Australian academics long term we will be importers. Worse still the concept of a campus will become a screen. Australian students will either flood to China or Chinese internet campuses for their degrees and an improved understanding of Chinese Culture and politics.

Will Newscorp will grow to be the bigger Australian moderator of the “I” vs “we’ thinking? Will the Ramsay center become the teriary thought police of the nation? I won’t be here but my grandchildren will and they don’t deserve to be slaves of Capitalism racing to automate the work force out of jobs. (ODT)

The number of Chinese students studying in Australia will decline over the next decade as a key competitor in the lucrative international education market – China – invests in itself, the vice-chancellor of a leading university has warned.

via ‘A knowledge race’: Australian universities set to suffer drop in students from China