What we know about why Chinese students come to Australia to study
- Written by Hannah Soong, Lecturer in Teacher Education Practice, School of Education, University of South Australia
Chinese students in Canberra for the 2008 Beijing Olympics torch relay.Pierre Pouliquin/flickr, CC BY-NC
In 2016-17 Australia’s third largest export, international education, leapt from A$23.6 billion to a record high of A$28 billion. Within the higher education sector, the highest intake of international students is of Chinese origin.
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