Australian Higher Education

Australian higher education has evolved into a mature, high-quality, highly internationalized system within the Southeast Asian region. This success is partly an accident of history and geography—a former British colonial nation located in a global region in which demand for high-quality higher education is outstripping the provision capacities and capabilities of neighboring nations—and partly a result of strategic and collaborative national attention to system design, quality assurance, performance monitoring, and overseas marketing. Despite the success in building a high-participation domestic system and a major export industry, Australia must now reform its higher education funding model and re-examine what it means to be internationalized in the context of the rapid development of university systems in Asia and the transnational student flows that will grow over the next decade