Casting the Net Wider: Coping with an Increasingly Diverse International Student Body in Australia

Abstract

In April 2016, the then-Minister for International Education Richard Colbeck released a nine-year National Strategy for International Education in Australia. The strategy not only acknowledges the significance and positive impacts of international education and international students on Australia’s economy but also suggests doubling the current international students to almost a million by 2025 by tapping onto current (Asian) and emerging new markets. By referring to strategies I use in the classroom that maintain quality assurance standards and to my research into the international student experience, this chapter responds to the national strategy by looking at the increasing numbers and hence diversity within the classroom and in the wider community.