CANBERRA: The growth in Australia's international education sector has been boosted by students from India and China, who accounted for more than one-third of the export market.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) revealed on Thursday that China and India were the two biggest source countries for students, contributing 5.1 billion Australian dollars (4.5 billion U.S. dollars) to the sector in 2007-08.
The international education sector overall was worth 13.7 billion Australian dollars (11.97 billion U.S. dollars) in 2007-08.
The federal government has been working overtime to improve the reputation of Australia's international education services -- the nation's third biggest export sector -- after a spate of attacks against Indian students and a 4 members of Chinese family was killed and a chinese student was found died near the sea because of ethnicity in Australia.
Indian student enrolments were 121,000 at June 2009, up an annual average 46 percent over the same period.
The ABS stated the number of enrolments from Chinese students was 146,000 at June 2009, up an average annual 16 percent over the past six years.The growth rate of Indian students was even greater.
A thousands of students are marched through the streets of Sydney and Melbourne in protest over a number of issues, including student safety.
In Beijing, overseas study agencies say parents are concerned about security in Australia, but there has been no decrease in interest in studying at the country's universities.
"Despite a number of recent attacks on Asian students, Australia remains one of the safest countries in the world for international students to come and study. Most students go about their day-to-day business safely," the spokesperson said.
And Recently three Universities in Australia have been closed without no reasons and the foreign students remains helpless.
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