| Good morning The number of pro-Palestinian encampments on campuses are reducing in number as exams and the semester break approach, although at the University of Melbourne, students occupying the Arts West building are ignoring warnings to leave. Universities and other international education providers are preparing for a campaign against the Albanese government’s plan to assume wide powers over numbers of international students at university that include the power to suspend courses, or even suspend nearly all teaching, at education providers which breach the cap which they are assigned by the government. As the government prepares to implement parts of the Universities Accord review and set up the new Australian Tertiary Education Commission to oversee universities, it has backed away from its plan to include the higher education regulator, TEQSA, and the research funding body, the Australian Research Council, in the new body. NSW university annual reports were released this week revealing widespread operating deficits by universities last year. The University of Sydney was a notable exception, posting a $353 million surplus as it rides high on the back of high fee paying Chinese students. Until next Wednesday | 
