Australia leads on foreign students

by pankaj kumar | September 7, 2010 at 07:10 pm

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The country has became the heaven for the student however the security concerns are also mounting in Australia.Recent attack on asian students can dempent the sentiments of the student who are willing to take admission in Australia.

AUSTRALIA has the highest proportion of international students enrolled in its tertiary institutions in the world, according to an international study.

The OECD's Education at a Glance report, released last night, found one in five students in tertiary education in Australia in 2008 was from overseas. Australia was ahead of Austria, which had 15.5 per cent foreign students, Belgium (8.6 per cent) and Canada (6.5 per cent) and well ahead of the OECD average of 6.7 per cent.

It was also more reliant on students to pick up the bill for tertiary education than most other developed countries