Strategy aims to attract more foreigners to study and stay on

By Geoff Maslen. Australia is among the most popular study destinations in the world for international students and over the past 50 years, more than 2.5 million foreigners have enrolled in the nation’s universities, vocational education institutions and schools.
Now the federal government has set out a Draft National Strategy for International Education to boost international student numbers so as to again have 631,000 studying with Australian education institutions here and overseas as was the case in 2009, instead of the 590,000 enrolled last year. Read more...