Two young men, Chaitanya Mupparaju and Surya Teja Bobba, both international students from India, tragically lost their lives at Millaa Millaa Falls in the Cairns Tablelands.
"We’ve seen direct evidence where people have written to TEQSA and said ‘I did all this student’s work and they didn’t pay me, I want you to take away their degrees’."
The new regulations will see the closure of two specific pathways that have been identified as methods to "subvert" offshore student integrity measures.
In 2022, data from the Group of Eight (Go8) and the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) showed that 40% of PhD students in Australia were aged 30 and above.
Videos circulating on social media show heated exchanges between residents and border officials, including instances in which goods, such as small food items, were seized
