OPINION: We should be advertising Australian education as a kind of finishing school in social graces for many ambitious Asians.
Australia might not lead the world in artificial intelligence, but we have a competitive advantage in the human skills that anWe are known across the world for our emphasis on lifestyle, balancing work with leisure, a laconic sense of humour and gregarious social presence.
As business leader and University of Technology Sydney chancellor Catherine Livingstone said last month, our tertiary education sector should not be criticised for a reliance on international students, but be celebrated as a vital export industry. While some educators look in admiration at places such as Singapore for its high test scores, prominent Chinese educator Jiang Xueqin warns against idealising such Confucian-influenced systems.
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