RMIT researchers point to the contradiction of Australian universities emphasising environmental sustainability while relying on the “unsustainable hypermobility” of air travel for researchers and international students. “Across Australian higher education, “air travel is implicitly normalised and encouraged,” Andrew Glover, Yolande Strengers and Tania Lewis write in a new journal article.
It certainly is at RMIT which says it has trained 1000 pilots since 1994 and has four aircraft.