AAP General News (Australia)
08-10-2000
QLD: Off shore campuses the big growth area for Aussie unis
An international education seminar has been told more than 30,000 international students
now study Australian university courses in off-shore campuses.
IDP Education Australia researcher DOROTHY DAVIS says more than a third of the 108,600
international students registered with Australian universities were in campuses in Singapore,
Malaysia and Hong Kong.
She's told the 14th Australian International Education Conference that foreign students
now make up 29 per cent of Australia's university intakes.
In a globalisation of the Australian tertiary education market, universities work with
partner institutions from the country where the campus is located.
Thirty-five Australian universities are offering 750 study programs overseas and Ms
DAVIS says it's vital Australian university authorities don't shirk their responsibility
to ensure the quality of the programs.
Senator KAY PATTERSON, the parliamentary secretary to the Minister for Immigration,
has told the conference the number of off-shore students studying in Australia has soared
to a record 120,564 this year.
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KEYWORD: TERTIARY STUDENTS (BRISBANE)
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