What's New

1) International Mobility of Australian University Students: 2005, by Alan Olsen, is forthcoming in Journal of Studies in International Education and published OnlineFirst on 30 April 2008. Australia as a destination for international students is well researched. However, less is known about the numbers of Australian students who undertake international study experiences during their courses, the characteristics of those students, their types of experiences, their fields of education, and their destinations. This study finds that nearly 5 percent of undergraduates in Australian universities undertake an international study experience by the time they complete their degrees. Most students go overseas on exchanges or other semester- or year-long programs, more than on short-term programs or work placements. Of international study experiences in 2005, 59 percent were undertaken by women. Arts and business were the most common fields of education, and Europe and the Americas were the most popular destinations.

2) Global Student Mobility: An Australian Perspective Five Years On, by Melissa Banks, Alan Olsen and David Pearce, is the third study by IDP Education to forecast demand for international higher education. The framework builds on previous work and takes advantage of the latest information sets ultimately to combine both demand and supply side drivers. A What If? Calculator enables users to vary key assumptions, build their own forecasts and undertake risk analyses for key markets.

3) Benchmarking of Australian University International Operations 2006: Findings and an Institutional Perspective, by Alan Olsen and Jeffrey Smart, is the 2007 paper for the Australian International Education Conference on benchmarking of eight specific aspects of the international operations of Australian universities.

4) Ten Years On: Satisfying Hong Kong's Demand for Higher Education is the 2007 paper by Alan Olsen of SPRE Limited and Peter Burges of IDP Education P/L published in Hong Kong on 30 June 2007, ten years after the handover of Hong Kong to China. Ten years into Chinese rule, ten years since the last British Governor sailed out of Hong Kong, it is still difficult to get into university in Hong Kong.

5) Benchmarking 2005 and Time Series 2002 to 2005: is the October 2006 paper for the Australian International Education Conference in Perth in October 2006 http://www.idp.com/aiec/papers/ The paper presents some high level findings from the 2005 AUIDF benchmarking study, including time series data covering 2002 to 2005.

6) Models and Types: Guidelines for Good Practice in Transnational Education, by Stephen Connelly, Jim Garton and Alan Olsen, is the September 2006 paper published online by the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education, London, http://www.obhe.ac.uk/products/reports/.

7) Comparative Academic Performance of International Students in Australia, by Alan Olsen, Zena Burgess, and Raj Sharma, is the Winter 2006 paper which shows there is no difference between the academic performance of international students compared with their Australian counterparts http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/soe/cihe/newsletter/Number42/p11_Olsen_Burgess_Sharma.htm