Schools seek answers on international students
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The Andrews government is being urged to âconsider all optionsâ to get international school students back into the country, including putting them on charter flights and into residential quarantine.
Education Minister James Merlino met with principals from state, Catholic and independent schools on Tuesday afternoon, but offered them no commitment on when overseas students might be allowed back into the state.
Oakleigh Grammar principal Mark Robertson with international students Sinky and Betty.
Credit:Penny Stephens
More than 40 high-fee Victorian schools are proposing that year 11 and 12 students from low-COVID places such as China, Vietnam, Singapore, Hong Kong and Cambodia would take exclusively commissioned charter flights to Melbourne. The students would then go into hotel quarantine with