By Roger Maynard, Australian Correspondent

FOREIGN students studying in Australia are all too often regarded as cash cows to finance domestic students and research, a review of the nation's education system has found.

It also warns that many universities rely far too heavily on international education to compensate for poor public funding, and calls for an extra A$6 billion (S$6 billion) in financing.

The Bradley Review of Australian Higher Education, presented to the government yesterday, is the most important study of its kind since 2002.

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