Senate debates

Wednesday, 11 November 2015

Questions without Notice

Overseas Students

2:45 pm

Photo of Richard ColbeckRichard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Tourism and International Education) Share this | Hansard source

At this point in time the government is developing Australia's first ever National Strategy for International Education. It is a very important piece of work, involving broad consultation with government and stakeholders across the education sector. We also need to talk to the users of the education system—so students and industry. We want to ensure that the international education sector here in Australia is as innovative as possible. In fact, in Darwin, during the discussions that Senator Macdonald talked about a few moments ago, I talked to someone who was looking at developing the Uber of the education sector. These are the sorts of things that we are working on with industry and the sector to develop so that we can have a dynamic and important industry that is reflective of and is responsive to the needs of students.

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