A submit circulating on LinkedIn seems to indicate the Australian Catholic College updating its agent companions with data that explains because of the authorities’s Nationwide Planning Stage, the college will not offer locations for 2025 programs that fall below the proposed caps.
“Regrettably because of the current coverage updates, the NPL being carried out by the Australian authorities, and the excessive demand for ACU applications, now we have reached our supplier restrict for 2025. We are going to not situation affords or acceptances for non-exempt with a 2025 begin date, efficient instantly,” a letter to brokers reads.
“We perceive that this can be disappointing, and recognise that this can be a tough state of affairs for you and your college students. We apologise for the inconvenience this may occasionally trigger and sit up for working intently with you to assist you sooner or later.”
In its Worldwide Pupil Profile communicated by the federal government, ACU was given an indicative cap of 1,700 new abroad scholar commencements which is 8% increased than the 2023 ranges for this explicit establishment.
Though the federal authorities’s proposed cap on worldwide enrolments shouldn’t be but last, with the Invoice presently earlier than the Senate and the subsequent public listening to set for October 2, it appears the establishment is exercising warning by pausing recruitment for 2025.
ACU purposes for 2026 programs at the moment are open, the communications urged. If college students select to not defer to a non-exempt program or defer to 2026, full refunds will probably be issued to college students who’ve made funds however haven’t but acquired their Affirmation of Enrolment.
In the meantime, ACU’s web site means that purposes for 2025 stay open.
The PIE has reached out to the Australian Catholic College for remark and can replace this text with any new data because it turns into accessible.
