Jacinta Allan’s China trip adds pressure for Victorian university reforms

At the end of a China trip punctuated by an agreement between Jacinta Allan and Beijing’s education minister to boost student exchanges, the Victorian premier concedes her government has work to do at home to ensure universities deliver their end of the bargain.

Revealing further details of her meeting with Huai Jinpeng in Beijing, Allan says the pair spoke about international education being “the truest form of securing the future” between two countries co-dependent in trade but geostrategically at odds.

“When you have got kids learning language and culture, through education opportunities, they are building trust, they are building collegiality, they are building friendship that are going to provide a more secure world into the future because they understand one another,” Allan told T