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Foreign students disembark from an international flight at Darwin Airport, the first such [http://www.google.de/search?q=arrivals arrivals] since Australia's border closure in March<br>  <br>International students have arrived in Australia for the first time since the country shut its borders to curb coronavirus in March, with a charter flight touching down in Darwin on Monday.<br> <br>Australian universities have been leaking cash due to the country's indefinite border closure, which has locked out foreign students who keep the billion-dollar sector afloat.<br> <br>A plane chartered by Charles Darwin University (CDU) carrying 63 international students arrived in the northern city of Darwin as part of a pilot programme aimed at kickstarting the higher education industry.<br> <br>The students -- from mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, Vietnam and Indonesia -- travelled to Singapore to catch the flight and will now spend 14 days in a government quarantine facility.<br> <br>The mix of new and [http://www.answers.com/topic/continuing%20students continuing students] are enrolled across a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses including law, nursing and engineering.<br> <br>In a statement,  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/blog/du-lich-bali-tuyet-voi-nhu-the-nao.html du lịch ba li] CDU said it was "an important first step in the recovery of the international education sector in Australia".<br>          The students -- from mainland China, Hong Kong,  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/blog/du-lich-bali-tuyet-voi-nhu-the-nao.html du lịch ba li] Japan, Vietnam and Indonesia -- travelled to Singapore to catch the flight<br>  <br>Education is listed as Australia's fourth-largest export -- behind iron ore, coal and natural gas -- with more than 500,000 international students enrolled last year, bringing about Aus$37 billion into the economy.<br> <br>Lobby group Universities Australia said in June that the sector could lose US$11 billion as a result of the border closure.<br> <br>Universities -- which as public institutions were omitted from a government coronavirus wage subsidy scheme -- have been shedding thousands of jobs.<br> <br>Similar proposals by universities in Canberra and Adelaide were previously scrapped, as the government came under pressure to reserve places in quarantine facilities for Australians stranded overseas.<br> <br>Policies limiting the number of returnees have left more than 35,000 Australian citizens stuck abroad, despite government promises to bring them home by Christmas.<br> <br>Many international students also remain stuck in Australia,  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/blog/du-lich-bali-tuyet-voi-nhu-the-nao.html kynghidongduong.vn] and some are relying on charities for food handouts after they were excluded from support packages.<br>