While 2020 system data is a ways off there are positive signs in the financial skies

In Features this morning Frank Larkins and Ian Marshman (Uni Melbourne’s Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education) suggest “significant revenues” were up this year and public universities as a whole could absorb a 15 per cent decline in 2020 fees and charges earnings and still have had earnings around 2019 levels.

“The Australian university sector has a significant buffer (providing institutions are willing to take investment returns into consideration) to cover anticipated further reductions in international student fee revenue in 2021.”