Internationalization of Higher Education in Australia: Development and Implementation of Policy Changes

Abstract

This thesis is a study of policy change and implementation in the area of internationalization of higher education in Australia. It is a study of quite fundamental changes in direction in both Commonwealth Government and institutional policies from "aid to trade". Today Australia has a commercial approach to internationalization of higher education, which comprises a wide range of activities and areas of cooperation, while in earlier times the modest recruitment of relatively small numbers of international students took place under an aid perspective.