{"id":61878,"date":"2022-03-01T04:17:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T09:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=61878"},"modified":"2022-03-01T04:17:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T09:17:45","slug":"how-women-could-be-the-answer-to-australias-international-education-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/how-women-could-be-the-answer-to-australias-international-education-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"How women could be the answer to Australia\u2019s international education crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The future of Australia\u2019s international education sector is on the drawing board. In the midst of Australia\u2019s COVID-19 surge, the federal government released the\u00a0Australian Strategy for International Education 2021-2030<\/a>. It paints a future for the sector built around increased diversification and a focus on student support and well-being.<\/p>\n

Looking at Australia\u2019s international education sector through a gendered lens reveals the importance of female students in any recovery strategy. In particular, we need to understand the factors that either attract or dissuade female students from studying abroad. This can help those working in international education to better understand what services and supports these students need.<\/p>\n

In a\u00a0report released today<\/a>, my analysis of the most recent available data (2020) shows the first year of the pandemic had different impacts on female and male international students.<\/p>\n

Female enrolments have grown much faster<\/strong><\/h4>\n

International education in Australia is becoming increasingly female. The numbers of\u00a0female international students rose by 22%<\/a>\u00a0between 2016 and 2020 despite the pandemic drop of 2020. In the same period, male enrolments grew by 18%.<\/p>\n

This feminising trend is part of a global phenomenon of women increasingly seeking education abroad. Globally, women\u2019s enrolment in higher education has\u00a0grown almost twice as fast<\/a>\u00a0as the male enrolment rate in the past four decades.<\/p>\n

The trend is mainly due to increased equity and access for women. As women\u2019s participation in higher education has grown, so has their participation in global student mobility.<\/p>\n

What are the trends in source countries?<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Several countries send more women than men to study in Australia. Most of these are in North-East and South-East Asia. Each has had rapid economic growth in the past 40 years with\u00a0women\u2019s participation rising<\/a>\u00a0at all levels of domestic education.<\/p>\n

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Enrolments from female-majority markets were relatively stable in the first year of the pandemic. While all these countries besides Vietnam sent fewer students to Australia in 2020 than in 2019, the gender ratio remained the same. Overall, female students from this group of countries did not choose to delay their studies or study elsewhere at a higher rate than male students.<\/p>\n

Female-dominant sending countries were among Australia\u2019s most stable sources of students during the early days of the pandemic.<\/p>\n

China has been behind much of the growth in female students arriving in Australia.\u00a0More than 54% of Chinese students<\/a>\u00a0studying at Australian institutions are female.<\/p>\n

This mirrors the overall growth in the proportion of women leaving China for study. There was a\u00a0five-fold increase<\/a>\u00a0in the four decades after the economic reforms of the late 1970s. Today\u00a060% of outgoing students<\/a>\u00a0from China are female.<\/p>\n

Questions about whether Chinese students will return to Australia, in what numbers and how to best support them are largely also questions about gendered aspirations, careers and expectations.<\/p>\n

What about the markets with more male students?<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The story from countries that send more males than females to Australia was quite different in the first year of the pandemic. These countries are mostly located in South Asia and the Middle East, rather than the Asia-Pacific region.<\/p>\n

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Male-majority markets experienced larger drops in overall enrolments in 2020. Student numbers from India, Australia\u2019s second-largest source country, fell by 24% between 2019 and 2020. At the same time, the percentage of female enrolments from all these countries \u2013 with the exception of Oman \u2013 increased.<\/p>\n

These data suggest male students in these countries changed their minds or delayed their Australian studies during the early pandemic months at a greater rate than female students.<\/p>\n

With the exception of India, male-majority sending countries send fewer students to Australia than female-majority nations. Take out the two largest markets \u2013 China and India \u2013 and the disparity is even greater.<\/p>\n

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The top five female-dominant markets, even without their largest contributor, are still responsible for more than twice as many students enrolled in Australia as the top five male-dominant markets.<\/p>\n

A female success story in other ways too<\/h4>\n

Australia\u2019s female international students are the most successful of all our university student cohorts. They continued to have higher rates of academic success in 2020 than their male counterparts and all domestic students. International female students are traditionally relatively successful in Australian undergraduate courses.<\/p>\n

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During the rapid digital transformation of our institutions during 2020, international students continued to maintain \u2013 and in fact increase \u2013 their academic edge.<\/p>\n

Female international students are largely resilient, successful and are looking to gain more than qualifications during their time in Australia.\u00a0Research shows<\/a>\u00a0many of them study abroad to experience a new way of life and greater independence, alongside gaining a degree. Understanding this cohort \u2013 their ambitions, their drivers and what support they need \u2013 will be key to Australia\u2019s international education sector\u2019s recovery.<\/p>\n

Author Bio:<\/strong> Angela Lehmann is an Honorary Lecturer, College of Arts and Social Science at the Australian National University<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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