Prepared by: Professor Tony Dingle Associate Dean, Education Professor Gill Palmer Dean

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Prepared byProfessor Tony Dingle Associate
Dean, EducationProfessor Gill Palmer - Dean

• Chinese Undergraduate Business Students at
  Monash An Australian Case Study

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International Students in Australia and at Monash
University

• Relative to its size Australia has attracted a
  disproportionately large share of the world
  market for English-speaking international
  students. Nearly 1 in 5 tertiary students in
  Australia are international.
• Monash is Australias largest University with
  around 55,000 students. Its largest Faculty is
  Business and Economics with 16,000 students.
  More than 11,000 are studying undergraduate
  business degrees. Of these 45 are international
  full-fee paying students.
• International students come overwhelmingly from
  Asia. Students from mainland China have
  increased fourfold since 2001 and now account for
  more than half our international intake.

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Entry Requirements

• Equivalence of local and international entry
  standards and credit for prior learning
• English language requirements challenges for
  Chinese students
• Cultural Sensitivity
• Cultural differences and cultural sensitivity
• Challenges for teaching staff
• Pressures on international students to perform

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Student Services

• International students face greater challenges
  than do local students so we assume that they
  will require more support than local students
• How to deliver student support?
• University wide provision vs Faculty level
  delivery
• The problem of multiple campuses

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Internationalising the Curriculum

• Should Curriculi be re-shaped to attract Chinese
  students?
• The Monash Experience
• Local focus vs international focus
• The Bachelor of Business and Commerce, an
  international degree designed to be delivered
  across multiple campuses in different countries

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The Volatility of the Higher Education Market for
International Students

• Revenues from international students the Monash
  Experience
• Cross-faculty subsidies and intra-faculty
  subsidies
• Exposure to risk in rapidly changing external
  environments
• Measures of Success
• Comparisons of the performance of local and
  international students
• In the Faculty of Business and Economics average
  pass rates of the two groups, that is local and
  international students have differed by less than
  2 percentage points over the last 6 years