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Topic: What would be an optimal recovery plan for the New Zealand and Australian export education sectors?

Presenter: Ly Tran

Host: ISANA NZ

Education institutes in leading destination countries have been direly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This health outbreak has exposed how dependent these institutes are on international student fees and how fragile the current transactional higher education model is. COVID-19 has also left major destinations scrambling for strategies and plans to stabilise and rebuild the international education sectors. Latest responses include New Zealand’s announcement of a strategic recovery plan, injecting NZ $51.6 million to boost the sector, and Australia’s announcement of visa changes for new and current international students. These initiatives aim to support the recovery of the sector and signal to prospective students that Australia and New Zealand are open and welcoming destinations. But given the global headwinds facing the international education sector, have these initiatives gone far enough and what might be other implications. This webinar will discuss the factors that determine international education recovery globally and what would be an optimal plan to rebuild the sector?

Ly Tran is a Professor in the School of Education, Deakin University, Australia and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. Her research focuses on international education, student mobility, international student graduate employability and learning abroad. Ly has published extensively on these topics. Her books and papers have won a range of awards.