Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts
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Rob Malicki from AIM Overseas analyses the Australian Government's recent announcement of the AsiaBound program to increase the number of Australian students studying in Asia.
You can learn more about AIM Overseas and the contributions they are making to outbound mobility research and policy in Australia via their website.
You can learn more about AIM Overseas and the contributions they are making to outbound mobility research and policy in Australia via their website.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Are U.S. Students who Study in Non-Western Countries More Serious Students?
I posted the following to IHEC Blog’s Facebook page a short time ago and thought I would post here to see what readers think.
I recently read an article that suggested that U.S. students who study abroad in the Middle East or in Asia or in Africa or in Latin America are more serious students than those who study in Europe or Australia U.S. students who go to Europe and Australia
Monday, January 4, 2010
Two Brief Notes of Sadness on Matters Related to International Education
On this first work day of the new year my inbox has filled with Google Alerts linking to articles on two important issues related to international education. In case you are busy and haven’t been able to follow the news:
1. Sad news out of Australia is that a twenty-one year old student from India was stabbed and killed in a park over the weekend while walking to work in Melbourne. You can read more about the incident and the ripple effects here. Violence against Indian students in Australia was a very hot topic in 2009 in both India and Australia. On July 15th I asked on IHEC Blog “has the recent violence against Indian students in Australia had an effect on Indian American students’ decision to study abroad in Australia?” which you can read here.
2. The aftermath of the failed Christmas Day bombing attempt of a Delta Airlines flight to Detroit has set in motion new and intense screening procedures at airports worldwide for citizens from 14 nations. Citizens from the four “state sponsors of terrorism” and nine “countries of interest” will now be required to “undergo full-body pat downs and will face extra scrutiny of their carry-on bags before they can board planes to the United States. In some countries that have more advanced screening equipment, travelers will also be required to pass through so-called whole-body scanners that can look beneath clothing for hidden explosives or weapons, or may be checked with a device that can find tiny traces of explosives.”[1] You can read more about these new security measures here.
These two issues will no doubt effect international education exchange in Australia, India and the United States.
[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/us/04webtsa.html
1. Sad news out of Australia is that a twenty-one year old student from India was stabbed and killed in a park over the weekend while walking to work in Melbourne. You can read more about the incident and the ripple effects here. Violence against Indian students in Australia was a very hot topic in 2009 in both India and Australia. On July 15th I asked on IHEC Blog “has the recent violence against Indian students in Australia had an effect on Indian American students’ decision to study abroad in Australia?” which you can read here.
2. The aftermath of the failed Christmas Day bombing attempt of a Delta Airlines flight to Detroit has set in motion new and intense screening procedures at airports worldwide for citizens from 14 nations. Citizens from the four “state sponsors of terrorism” and nine “countries of interest” will now be required to “undergo full-body pat downs and will face extra scrutiny of their carry-on bags before they can board planes to the United States. In some countries that have more advanced screening equipment, travelers will also be required to pass through so-called whole-body scanners that can look beneath clothing for hidden explosives or weapons, or may be checked with a device that can find tiny traces of explosives.”[1] You can read more about these new security measures here.
These two issues will no doubt effect international education exchange in Australia, India and the United States.
[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/us/04webtsa.html
Friday, December 11, 2009
Interrupting all Programmes…Video of the Week ~The Australia Project Student Documentary Trailer
Today on IHEC Blog I’m starting what I hope will become an interesting and ongoing Friday feature. The new “Video of the Week” series will compliment the “Links of Interest” post every Friday. For this initial post I selected “The Australia Project Student Documentary Trailer” from the AustraLearn YouTube channel. Here is a brief summary of The Australia Project that I copied and pasted from the channel:
“A student developed documentary created by two film students on an AustraLearn internship in Australia. Learn more or request a free copy of the DVD at www.australearn.org/AustraliaProject”
Check out more of AustraLearn’s videos on their YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/AustraLearn. Additionally, you may want to follow AustraLearn on Twitter here and you can find them on Facebook here.
“A student developed documentary created by two film students on an AustraLearn internship in Australia. Learn more or request a free copy of the DVD at www.australearn.org/AustraliaProject”
Check out more of AustraLearn’s videos on their YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/AustraLearn. Additionally, you may want to follow AustraLearn on Twitter here and you can find them on Facebook here.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
The Economic Impact of International Students – New Paper Released Today
Today a new paper released today entitled Exports of Educational Services Attributable to the Overseas Industry in Australia by Bob Birrell, Co-Director of the Centre for Population and Urban Research at Monash University, calls into question the methodology used to calculate the economic impact of international students. I won’t summarize in this post as Geoff Maslen at University World News, exclusive publisher of this report, wrote a great article about this. You can read the University World News article which links to Birrell’s paper here.
For those IHEC Blog readers looking for a solid and informative news source on higher education matters across the globe should subscribe to University World News (free subscription). Visit the University World News home page here to see the value in their work and you can subscribe here.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
An Australian Medical School in New Orleans - The Changing Landscape in Higher Education
I was alerted to an new and interesting collaboration between Ochsner Health System in Louisiana and the University of Queensland Medical School in Brisbane, Australia from an article entitled “Australians Open U.S. Med School” by Elizabeth Redden on insidehighered.com.
This agreement is the first of its kind in the United States and one that will serve as a model for future/similar developments we are sure to see in the future. You can learn more about this new program on the University of Queensland School of Medicine website here which includes a video (4:06 minutes) from the press conference led by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. You can als read the press release and watch the same video on the Ochsner website here.
An interesting note from the press conference that caught my attention was the mention that Alton Ochsner (founder of Ochsner Health System) spent some of his medical school studies in Europe. I discovered that Alton Ochsner held a surgical residencies in the early 1920’s under Professor Paul Clairmont in Zurich and under Professor Victor Schmieden in Frankfurt, for a total of two years. You can learn more about Dr. Alton Ochsner here. Of special note...Alton Ochsner is the person who identified the link between tobacco use and lung cancer!
This agreement is the first of its kind in the United States and one that will serve as a model for future/similar developments we are sure to see in the future. You can learn more about this new program on the University of Queensland School of Medicine website here which includes a video (4:06 minutes) from the press conference led by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. You can als read the press release and watch the same video on the Ochsner website here.
An interesting note from the press conference that caught my attention was the mention that Alton Ochsner (founder of Ochsner Health System) spent some of his medical school studies in Europe. I discovered that Alton Ochsner held a surgical residencies in the early 1920’s under Professor Paul Clairmont in Zurich and under Professor Victor Schmieden in Frankfurt, for a total of two years. You can learn more about Dr. Alton Ochsner here. Of special note...Alton Ochsner is the person who identified the link between tobacco use and lung cancer!
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Has the Recent Violence Against Indian Students in Australia had an Effect on Indian American Students’ Decision to Study Abroad in Australia?
There has been a flurry of news over the past few months about several incidence of violence against Indian students studying in Australia and the effect this has on higher education and the economy in Australia. Specifically, over 70 attacks on Indian students have occurred in Australia over the past year or so and this has sparked outrage in India as well as a swift “zero tolerance” response in Australia. Last week a nine-member delegation from Australia began a nine-day itinerary of India in an effort to mend relations and improve the image of Australia and its higher education system. I have copied and pasted the following from the July 7th Wall Street Journal article “Australians Travel to India to Talk About Student Safety” to highlight the impact these attacks can have on Australia:
“The issue is important for Australia's economy because the education of foreign students has become big business, generating 15.5 billion Australian dollars (US$12.54 billion) in 2008, Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard said in May.
Foreigners now make up 25% of students, up from just under 10% in 1997. Indian students represent about 18% of the 542,000 foreigners studying in Australia, second only to those from China, according to data from the Australian Council for Private Education and Training. The higher-education sector is now Australia's third-largest export earner behind coal and iron ore.
In the state of Victoria, education is the biggest export earner and many of the attacks have occurred in Melbourne, Victoria's capital.”
Those of you who have not been following these developments in Australia may want to do a simple internet search or link to a few articles I have highlighted below:
“Australians Travel to India to Talk About Student Safety” from the July 7th The Wall Street Journal
“Punjab government seeks data of students studying in Australia” from June 10th The Times of India
“Indian Students Claim Epidemic of Racist Violence in Australia” from June 4th VOANews.com
“The issue is important for Australia's economy because the education of foreign students has become big business, generating 15.5 billion Australian dollars (US$12.54 billion) in 2008, Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard said in May.
Foreigners now make up 25% of students, up from just under 10% in 1997. Indian students represent about 18% of the 542,000 foreigners studying in Australia, second only to those from China, according to data from the Australian Council for Private Education and Training. The higher-education sector is now Australia's third-largest export earner behind coal and iron ore.
In the state of Victoria, education is the biggest export earner and many of the attacks have occurred in Melbourne, Victoria's capital.”
Those of you who have not been following these developments in Australia may want to do a simple internet search or link to a few articles I have highlighted below:
“Australians Travel to India to Talk About Student Safety” from the July 7th The Wall Street Journal
“Punjab government seeks data of students studying in Australia” from June 10th The Times of India
“Indian Students Claim Epidemic of Racist Violence in Australia” from June 4th VOANews.com
“Indian students describe Sydney attacks” from June 3rd issue of ABC News
“Indian students unsure about studying in Australia” from May 29th ABC Radio Australia
It should be noted that Australia is not the only country where Indian students as well as others have been attacked or have experienced racism.
In answer to the question “has the recent violence against Indian students in Australia had an effect on Indian American students’ decision to study abroad in Australia?”…I don’t have an answer and I think it would be a bit challenging (but not impossible) to measure. Some immediate thoughts are that most U.S. students are not aware these attacks on Indian students even occurred. Indian American students may be more informed on the situation in India than their peers as it has received significant media attention in India and I’m guessing in Indian media outlets (as well as in the WSJ) here in the United States. As many IHEC Blog readers know, I have a strong research interest in diversifying the U.S. study abroad student profile and I’ve written about and compiled an annotated bibliography on heritage seeking in a study abroad context. What I don’t know and I need to investigate is “to what level do college and university level students in the U.S. keep up to date on news in countries of their heritage?” I will certainly try to seek answers to this question but if anyone has any leads for me please leave a comment.
Anyway…this question has been floating around in my head the last month or so as I’ve been reading about this situation and I thought I post to IHEC Blog about it.
“Indian students unsure about studying in Australia” from May 29th ABC Radio Australia
It should be noted that Australia is not the only country where Indian students as well as others have been attacked or have experienced racism.
In answer to the question “has the recent violence against Indian students in Australia had an effect on Indian American students’ decision to study abroad in Australia?”…I don’t have an answer and I think it would be a bit challenging (but not impossible) to measure. Some immediate thoughts are that most U.S. students are not aware these attacks on Indian students even occurred. Indian American students may be more informed on the situation in India than their peers as it has received significant media attention in India and I’m guessing in Indian media outlets (as well as in the WSJ) here in the United States. As many IHEC Blog readers know, I have a strong research interest in diversifying the U.S. study abroad student profile and I’ve written about and compiled an annotated bibliography on heritage seeking in a study abroad context. What I don’t know and I need to investigate is “to what level do college and university level students in the U.S. keep up to date on news in countries of their heritage?” I will certainly try to seek answers to this question but if anyone has any leads for me please leave a comment.
Anyway…this question has been floating around in my head the last month or so as I’ve been reading about this situation and I thought I post to IHEC Blog about it.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
The Economic Contribution of International Students in Australia
The Australian Council for Private Education and Training has issued a report prepared for them by Access Economics Pty Limited entitled The Australian Education Sector and the Economic Contribution of International Students. From the executive summary of the report:
“Education services ranks as the third largest export category earner for the year 2007-2008, behind coal and iron ore. Education services include expenditure by students in Australia ($13.7 billion) and exports from other education operations ((438 million). Education services ranks ahead of service categories of personal travel and professional services and merchandise trade categories of gold, crude petroleum and aluminum.
Each international student (including their friend and family visitors) contributes an average of $28,921 in value added to the Australian economy and generates 0.29 in full-time equivalent (FTE) workers.”
You can read the full report here.
Each international student (including their friend and family visitors) contributes an average of $28,921 in value added to the Australian economy and generates 0.29 in full-time equivalent (FTE) workers.”
You can read the full report here.
Monday, January 5, 2009
IDP Education Provides New Home for Database of Research on International Education
On December 8, 2008 IDP Education Pty Ltd. announced that they will provide the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) funding to maintain the Database of Research in International Education. For a considerable amount of time the Database of Research in International Education was without funding and faced the possibility of extinction.
You can access the database here: www.idp.com/researchdatabase
You can access the IDP press release here: http://tinyurl.com/5ukeuc
If you have information on new publications on international education please forward them to: ndrie@acer.edu.au
You can access the database here: www.idp.com/researchdatabase
You can access the IDP press release here: http://tinyurl.com/5ukeuc
If you have information on new publications on international education please forward them to: ndrie@acer.edu.au
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Three Reports Released on Global Student Mobility
Three very interesting reports on global student mobility from Australia, Canada and New Zealand were recently released and are available online.
The first report from IDP Education entitled “Global Student Mobility: An Australian Perspective Five Years On” is available at: www.idp.com/pdf/GSM_Brochure_Oct07.pdf
The second report from the Educational Policy Institute (EPI) in Canada entitled “Student Mobility and Credit Transfer: A National and Global Survey” is available at: www.educationalpolicy.org/pub/pubpdf/credit.pdf
The third report from Education Counts in New Zealand entitled “International Student Enrolments in New Zealand 2001-2007: is available at: www.educationcounts.govt.nz
The first report from IDP Education entitled “Global Student Mobility: An Australian Perspective Five Years On” is available at: www.idp.com/pdf/GSM_Brochure_Oct07.pdf
The second report from the Educational Policy Institute (EPI) in Canada entitled “Student Mobility and Credit Transfer: A National and Global Survey” is available at: www.educationalpolicy.org/pub/pubpdf/credit.pdf
The third report from Education Counts in New Zealand entitled “International Student Enrolments in New Zealand 2001-2007: is available at: www.educationcounts.govt.nz
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