Australia Education, Population, Migration & Students
 

Release of ESOS review issues paper and call for submissions. On 23
September the Education Services for Overseas Students (ESOS) Act 2000
issues paper was released. The ESOS review, led by the Hon Bruce
Baird, gives all people interested in the future of Australia’s
international education sector the opportunity to contribute their
ideas. http://www.aei.gov.au/ESOSreview


MELBOURNE'S population has reached 4 million and Australia's is
surging towards 22 million, according to new figures that have sparked
fresh debate about the impact of record migration. The Bureau of
Statistics says Australia's annual net migration soared in the first
three months of this year to 278,000 - up from just 100,000 five years
ago. http://www.theage.com.au/national/me...0922-g0j7.html


Migration waves The world's population growth is slowing, but
Australia's has accelerated to record levels. In the past four years,
almost without us noticing, immigration into this country has soared
to levels never seen before - at a time when employment is falling.
This week, the Bureau of Statistics estimated that in the year to
March, Australia's population grew by 439,000, or 2.1 per cent -
roughly double its average growth in recent times.
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/pol...0925-g68w.html


Higher education and skilled migration: panel The Migration and
Mobility Research Network (MMRN), a forum of interdisciplinary group
of academics from Melbourne universities, policymakers and
practitioners interested in migration, is presenting a panel on higher
education and skilled migration. http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=ghpofjruypmq1;STATUS=A


Tropical North Queensland company introduces indigenous travel product
to WYSTC Aboriginal travel product is being represented for the first
time at this year’s World Youth and Student Travel Conference (WYSTC),
according to Brandon Walker of Tropical North Queensland’s, The Bama
Way.
http://thumbrella.com.au/tropical-no...-to-wystc-4932


India, China fuel foreign student market. Students from India and
China are fuelling the growth in Australia's international education
sector, accounting for more than one-third of the export market.
According to a snapshot from the Australian Bureau of Statistics,
China and India were the two biggest source countries for students,
contributing $5.1 billion to the sector in 2007-08.
http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-n...0924-g4jh.html


Disappearing icons: another Apostle crumbles. Victoria's Twelve
Apostles now number just seven after another of the rock formations
tumbled into the sea off Victoria's west coast. A tour operator
contacted Parks Victoria early yesterday and reported the small stack
had disappeared. http://www.theage.com.au/travel/trav...0926-g6w8.html


The Lucky Country? Why is Australia the most successful and most
peaceful multiculture in the developed world? How did an Anglo nation
responsible for Aboriginal land theft, anti-Chinese riots and the
White Australia Policy mutate into the country with arguably the least
interracial violence in the developed world?
http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2696106.htm