Today we visited the University of Notre Dame. It was neat seeing that it had ties back to the States and that the States have UND send students over here to study. Education qualifies for a service export, even though students come over and it may seem like an import. It is an export because students take what they learn from Australia abroad. I also found it interesting that UND has multiple campuses set up around Australia but only one in the US. Ad campaigns such as “Where the bloody hell are ya” have had a negative impact due to the title and one of the people starring in it. Another hit or miss thing that has been going on within this industry has been Australian Universities trying to set up universities abroad to attract students to continental universities.
Another negative impact has been the assaults on Indian students. The Indian media has taken the stories, because the assaults happened multiple times and only occurred against Indian students, and blew it way out of proportion. This certainly has a negative impact because a large portion of Indian students will be deterred from studying in Australia. “He also said that a spate of racist attacks on Indian students in Victoria had trashed Australia’s reputation “almost overnight” and caused the number of students coming from India to drop by up to 95 per cent.” This quote from Call to tackle foreign student drop shows the significant impacts of only a few events that wouldn’t make the news in large US cities.
Over the course of our lecture (from Sean) I found out that church and state are not so separate here and that private universities can receive funding from the federal government. This is certainly a major difference between the United States and Australia. This has allowed many small universities (anywhere from Catholic to Muslim) to operate even though they would not be able to without government funding.
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