But they are still way short of pre-pandemic

Higher education visa applications lodged off-shore for the 21-22 financial year were 50 000 higher (171 000) than for ’20-’21 (122 000) and ahead of ’19-’20, when the pandemic started to have an impact (169 000).

But they are still way behind the peak year, 2018-19 when there were 206 000.

VET is up marginally – 81 000 – in 2020-21,  94 000 in  ‘21-’22 and not that much lower than 2018-19’s 114 000.

HE applications from China residents are well up on the previous financial year, 40 000 then compared to 50 000.   HE Apps from India are also up, 7000 higher than 20-21, to 37 000. However they lag ’18-19 which had 55 000