The international student awards recognise and showcase exceptional Victorian international students and alumni who champion international education in Victoria and across the globe.
Some lecturers fear that such a strategy on the university's part will compromise their rigorous academic standards just to keep fee-paying domestic and international students.
The crash killed 42-year-old mother Nancy Lefrançois and her 11-year-old son Loïc Chevalier, who were travelling in a passenger vehicle struck in the collision.