Foreign students to bring in $30b

Original article by Alan Olsen
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 35 : 6-Oct-14

Australia’s education export industry was worth $A16.4bn in 2010, compared with just $A7.9bn in 2004. This fell to $A14.6bn in fiscal 2013, but there has since been a rebound in international student enrolments as the Australian dollar weakened. It is estimated that if the number of foreign students continues to grow by about five per cent annually in coming years, the nation’s education export market could be worth $A30.8bn by 2020

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AUSTRADE, ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT

Australia outpaced in world uni rankings

Original article by Tim Dodd
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 3 : 2-Oct-14

The Times Higher Education (THE) ranking of the world’s universities for 2014 has been issued, with Australian Education Minister Christopher Pyne noting that Asian rivals of local tertiary institutions are gaining more places more quickly. THE editor Phil Baty, however, argues that the Government’s planned full deregulation of course fees may lift only the elite Group of Eight providers. Australian universities occupy eight places in the top 200, with the University of Melbourne rated highest at 33

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TSL EDUCATION LIMITED, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF EDUCATION, THE GROUP OF EIGHT LIMITED, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE, UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE, UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND, UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, MONASH UNIVERSITY, AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, SYDNEY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, OXFORD UNIVERSITY, STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Overseas students to miss out on internships

Original article by Harriet Alexander
The Sydney Morning Herald – Page: 11 : 2-Oct-14

Many overseas medical students will not gain internships in 2015. An audit predicts that 240 students will not be offered a position on graduation. These will all be international students as places are offered to domestic students first. The Australian Medical Students’ Association estimates that about 160 graduates will be forced to go overseas. A shortage of 2,700 doctors is forecast by 2025

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THE AUSTRALIAN MEDICAL STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION LIMITED, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF HEALTH, HEALTH WORKFORCE AUSTRALIA, MEDICAL DEANS AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND INCORPORATED