Tag: international students
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COVID19 and International Students: ABS Overseas Travel Statistics: Total Movement by Visa Group
Randomly, I was looking for some arrival and departure data for international students in Australia, seeking to test the theory that there had not been any mass scale departures of overseas students since Australia declared a COVID19 a pandemic.
Somewhat conincidentally, Professor Andrew Norton tweeted this chart literally hours earlier.
ABS international student arrivals data shows the decline since February and the importance of the mid-year intake. https://t.co/Ip2GlbIStw pic.twitter.com/kOP8Xb6VEp
— Andrew Norton (@andrewjnorton) May 13, 2020
I was immediately alerted to the existence of a brand new ABS dataset. I quickly did a bit of data wrangling/shaping and uploaded … Read the rest
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Let the good times roll: March student visa statistics indicate continued growth in Australian international education.
Just last week, it happened that I was sitting at home in front of my laptop with a glass of red wine in my hand when I noted the Department of Immigration and Border Protection had released their latest visa statistics on international students.
This sounds a tad depressing in retrospect, but the mood did strike. I decided to boot up my trusty excel models to quickly cut up some of the statistics to see what insights might be developed from the visa numbers.
Given that international student visa grant rates have a strong correlation with international student commencements, these … Read the rest