‘They are not a business’: Universities need to start ‘teaching our kids’

Australian universities need to stop acting like a business and start “teaching our kids” again, says Senator Jacqui Lambie. Her comments come as the Albanese government proposes a cap on international students enrolling into Australian universities. “The universities can jump up and down – I’ll remind the universities they are there to teach,” Ms Lambie told Sky News Australia. “They are not a business, they are actually there to teach our kids. “If you stopped acting so much like a business and got back to the basics of teaching our kids what they should be learning through university, I think we’d be a lot better off.”