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Australian Students in China: Making the Foreign Familiar

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Australian students are choosing to study in China in growing numbers, with strong support from their educational institutions and the Australian Government. All parties involved anticipate the experience will be transformative, but the diversity of individual study abroad experiences is not well understood (Tian & Lowe, 2014). The different parties involved in Australian student mobility to China, and elsewhere, anticipate some form of return on their international outbound investment. Students aim for a learning experience and improved employment prospects, institutions seek to enrich and internationalise their services, and governments pursue long-term economic prosperity through gaining a globally competent workforce.

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  1. Department of Education and Training, Australian Government, Canberra, ACT, Australia

    Steve Nerlich & Ping Yu

  2. Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

    Ross Tan

  3. University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Donna Velliaris

  4. Australian Embassy in China, Beijing, China

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Nerlich, S., Tan, R., Velliaris, D., Yu, P., Lawson, C. (2018). Australian Students in China: Making the Foreign Familiar. In: Dervin, F., Du, X., Härkönen, A. (eds) International Students in China. Palgrave Studies on Chinese Education in a Global Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78120-4_6

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