Counting (students) on international collaboration

By Steve Nerlich. Like most countries sending students out to study in other countries, Australia depends on those other countries to confirm where its students go and what they study. We can and do aim to ask our own university students where they went and what they did, after the fact. For example, a recent Australian University International Directors' Forum survey found that over 24,000 Australian university students studied for a time in other countries in 2012 during the course of their Australian degree, with about a third choosing a study destination in Asia. More...