As concerns about the spread of coronavirus deepen in Australia, attention has turned to the effect it is having on Australia's billion-dollar education sector. As around 250,000 Chinese students bound for Australia wait for the travel bans to lift, universities are implementing a range of strategies to deal with the situation: tuition fee refunds, free deferrals of study, online study and adjustments to teaching calendars. However, for Chinese high school students, the situations is more difficult, with the academic year well and truly away. 

CEO of the International Education Association of Australia, Phil Honeywood, who has been appointed to coordinate the sector's response, spoke to Campus Review after attending the Global Reputation Taskforce. The taskforce emphasised the need for "common, transparent and comprehensive" information being available to all during what Honeywood describes as an extremely "fluid" situation affecting many sectors. Honeywood also urged against the racial profiling of Chinese students and discussed why diversifying Australia's international education market is complicated and unwarranted.

As concerns about the spread of coronavirus deepen in Australia, attention has turned to the effect it is having on Australia's billion-dollar education sector. As around 250,000 Chinese students bound for Australia wait for the travel bans to lift, universities are implementing a range of strategies to deal with the situation: tuition fee refunds, free deferrals of study, online study and adjustments to teaching calendars. However, for Chinese high school students, the situations is more difficult, with the academic year well and truly away. <br><br>CEO of the International Education Association of Australia, Phil Honeywood, who has been appointed to coordinate the sector's response, spoke to Campus Review after attending the Global Reputation Taskforce. The taskforce emphasised the need for "common, transparent and comprehensive" information being available to all during what Honeywood describes as an extremely "fluid" situation affecting many sectors. Honeywood also urged against the racial profiling of Chinese students and discussed why diversifying Australia's international education market is complicated and unwarranted.

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