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Debate@Go8 – Episode 56 – Professor Amit Chakma, Vice-Chancellor and President, The University of Western Australia

Professor Amit Chakma, Vice-Chancellor and President of The University of Western Australia, discusses the thinking behind UWA’s recent move into India and plans for the wider region; Australia’s long and proud history of international education – both inwards and outwards; the current political environment around international education in Australia; and his own incredible journey that started in the hills of Bangladesh and took him to Algeria, across Canada and eventually his new hometown, Perth. Recorded November 2025.

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