| Good morning Australia’s international education industry is moving into new territory with the Albanese government expected, by mid-year, to impose caps on the number of international student visas it issues in order to limit the number of international students in the country. With the government under intense political pressure to show it is dealing with the rental housing shortage, and facing an election within the year, a cap on international students will be powerful means to persuade voters that it has the solutions they want. Sure it will create problems on other fronts – both in the economy and in relations with other countries in the region – but it’s no surprise that political needs come first when an election is drawing close. Ken McKinnon, who at 93 is one of the doyens of Australian education, continues to do what he’s done all his career – leave things better than he finds them in the education system. Ken, who built the University of Wollongong as its vice-chancellor from 1981 to 1995, and his wife Suzanne Walker, a UOW alumnus, have given $5m to the university to fund higher degree research fellowships. Ken’s long involvement with education goes back as far as pre-independence Papua New Guinea where he rose through the ranks to become director of education. After PNG became independent Ken was appointed as the first chairman of the Australian Schools Commission, established by the Whitlam Government. Then he led UOW until his retirement in 1995 but continued to contribute mightily to universities and public life in general. This is not he and Suzanne’s first gift to UOW and it won’t be their last. He told me the university can expect more in their bequest. Until next Wednesday | 