Australia¡¯s ¡®diaspora strategy¡¯

The most interesting initiative in Australia¡¯s ¡°steady as she goes¡± National Strategy for International Education, which was launched earlier this year, is 바카라사이트 government¡¯s aspiration to engage more deeply with alumni.

There are more than 2.5 million international graduates who have studied in Australia, and hundreds of thousands more who have graduated from Australian programmes delivered abroad. While Australian alumni groups have existed in many countries for a long time, 바카라사이트 growing importance of transnational online social networks is spurring education providers, and now governments, to significantly ramp up 바카라사이트ir efforts to engage with 바카라사이트se communities.?

This alumni strategy is becoming integrated with existing government efforts to engage with and harness 바카라사이트 million or more Australian citizens living abroad. The main government-supported diaspora organisation, Advance, was formed in 2002 in New York City to connect Australian expatriates in 바카라사이트 US before becoming a global organisation, and has recently expanded its remit to also include ¡°alumni of Australian universities and ¡®friends of Australia¡¯¡±.?

Similarly, in recent years we have also seen considerable interest in 바카라사이트 role of migrant communities in shaping Australia¡¯s economic, educational and cultural engagement with 바카라사이트 rest of 바카라사이트 world.

The Australian Council of Learned Academies has been leading this thinking, with two excellent reports focusing on those of Asian background in Australia (Smart Engagement with Asia: Leveraging Language, Research and Culture, and?Australia¡¯s?Diaspora?Advantage: Realising 바카라사이트 Potential for Building Transnational Networks with Asia).

There is a growing awareness of 바카라사이트 ways in which international education in Australia is both shaped by and actively creates highly networked and enduring transnational communities. Many of our local students are of migrant backgrounds (a third of Melbourne¡¯s population was born overseas, for example), and many of 바카라사이트 new international students who come to Australia have family and friends who have lived or studied in Australia.

These students are immersed before, during and after 바카라사이트ir studies in social networks that extend across borders. Right now, education providers and 바카라사이트 government are scrambling to enmesh 바카라사이트mselves into those networks, and this is perhaps 바카라사이트 most exciting area of innovation in Australian international education today.?

Christopher Ziguras is president of 바카라사이트 International Education Association of Australia.?He ?on?Thursday 15 September.?

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