文档介绍：Regulation of the cross-border supply of higher education services – an Australian perspective
Paper presented at WORLD ANIZATION
Symposium on Cross-Border Supply of Services
Geneva, 28 – 29 April 2005
William Thorn
Australian Permanent Delegation to the OECD, Paris
Introduction
Over the last decade, trade in education services has e a large scale activity globally. For countries such as Australia and New Zealand, trade in education represents a significant share of service exports and indeed of exports per se.
It is not easy to provide plete picture of the scale of international trade in education services due to deficiencies in the data. However, some idea can be given regarding some aspects of this trade, particularly in terms of the movement of students for study purposes It should be remembered that education services passes more than just the delivery of educational programs, including the provision of educational assessment and testing services, curriculum development etc.
. In 2002, it is estimated that some million students were enrolled outside their country of origin (OECD, 2004: 293). Among OECD countries (the main receiving countries for foreign students), foreign students represented percent of total higher education enrolments on average in 2002 (OECD, 2004: 306).
Taking the case of Australia, in 2003, some 210,397 students (or % of the total) enrolled in Australian higher education institutions were fee-paying overseas students The source of this and other figures regarding foreign students Australian higher education is the Higher Education student Collection maintained by the Australian Department of Education, Science and Training.
. In economic terms, it is estimated that exports of education (all bined) were worth some AUS$ billion in 2003-04 to Australia. Education represented Australia’s third largest service export – behind personal travel and and transportation – and its sixth largest export overall.
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