Sydney, Australia – A Sydney university is offering to pay all of its students $12,000 for a year’s accommodation, even if they don’t plan to go to university.
University of Sydney said the plan is to help cover a student’s living costs and that it has already received over 100 applications from students across Australia.
“Students in our program are on the upswing, and the university is hoping to get a good number of students to come,” said a spokesman for the university.
We want to help them realise their dream.” “
This is just one of the many ways in which we’re trying to help our students.
We want to help them realise their dream.”
The university’s proposal to offer accommodation to all students is the latest in a series of moves by the university to encourage its students to go on to study.
In April, the university announced it would be opening a new campus, the University of Canberra, in Canberra’s west, near the Australian Capital Territory.
But the university has since been forced to abandon plans to expand its campus after a massive fire last year destroyed much of the original structure.
The University of New South Wales (UNSW) announced in June that it would build a new $1.8 billion campus on the banks of the River Macarthur, about 40 kilometres north of Sydney.
Its announcement prompted concerns that the new campus would not have enough room to house its students.
UNSW’s announcement prompted the Australian Federal Police to launch an investigation into whether it breached the Human Rights Act by giving students the choice of either staying at a university or going to a Sydney college.
As of July, there were more than 3,200 students studying at Sydney’s top-ranked university, the Monash University, the Australian Institute of Technology, and six universities in Western Australia.
But as of the end of August, the total number of student studying in Sydney had fallen by nearly half to 1,400.
A spokeswoman for the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) told the ABC that the ABS was “currently working to track the full impact” of the fire on the country’s universities.
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