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VISTA SPRING 2013 CELEBRATING LEADERSHIP & INNOVATION IEAA EXCELLENCE AWARDS THE NEW COLOMBO PLAN: WHAT CAN WE EXPECT? DO PARTNERSHIPS ADVANCE INTERNATIONALISATION? | INDIA IN FOCUS SPRING 2013 | 1 PRESIDENT’S COLUMN: THE YEAR THAT STOOD STILL 4 Helen Zimmerman THE NEW COLOMBO PLAN: WHAT CAN WE EXPECT? 6 Phil Honeywood HARNESSING THE POWER OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ALUMNI 9 Joanne Pyke CONTENTS IEAA EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2013 12 Distinguished Contribution to International Education Excellence in Leadership in International Education Best Practice / Innovation in International Education Excellence in Professional Commentary Outstanding Postgraduate Thesis TONY ADAMS FUND 2013 20 DO PARTNERSHIPS ADVANCE INTERNATIONALISATION? 22 Anna Ciccarelli and Grant Kennett COUNTRY IN FOCUS: INDIA RETURNS 25 Rahul Gandhi UPDATES FROM THE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS (SIGs) 28 Internationalisation of the Curriculum Marketing, Recruitment and Communication Pathways Student Mobility Transnational Education PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & CONFERENCES 33 HIGHLIGHTS IEAA EXCELLENCE AWARDS IEAA’s Excellence Awards celebrate leadership and innovation across international education in Australia. We unveil this year’s winners in this special edition of Vista. Page 12. THE NEW COLOMBO PLAN: HARNESSING THE POWER OF WHAT CAN WE EXPECT? INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ALUMNI Thought the Coalition’s New Greater investment in alumni Colombo Plan was simply AsiaBound relations could yield major benefits reincarnated? Think again, writes for two of Australia’s most important Phil Honeywood. Page 6. exports, writes Joanne Pyke. Page 9. THE YEAR THAT STOOD STILL So much goodwill and ■ International Education Advisory Council’s Report Australia – good intentions have been Educating Globally (2013) invested by all stakeholders ■ Review of Higher Education – educational institutions, Regulation Report (2013) peak and professional And the result up until 7 bodies, governments, review September? Still no national committees, regulatory strategic framework for our largest bodies and individuals – services export industry, our greatest ‘soft diplomacy’ asset, in securing the future of and one of the cornerstones Australia’s international of global engagement and a education industry over the global knowledge economy – past few years. However, international education. 2012/13 feels like the year However, the election last month that stood still. of the Coalition Government provides us all with an opportunity PRESIDENT’S COLUMN We’ve invested millions of dollars in to draw a line in the sand on time, human resources and funding inaction and get down to work. of reviews, data gathering and The Coalition has demonstrated consultations to regulate, quality a clear intent to reinvigorate assure and develop a strategic, international education in Australia integrated and national framework and we need to hold them to it. for international education. The New Colombo Plan, in As well as an abundance of solid particular, articulates a plan for statistical data on international deep and meaningful engagement student trends and qualitative with Asia and will have far reaching studies on their experiences, we’ve impacts if the new government had 10 Government initiated matches rhetoric with long term reports in five years: resourcing. Julie Bishop deserves praise for her vision and planning. ■ Bradley Report of Australian Higher Education (2008) I also welcome the Coalition’s ■ Senate Enquiry into the Welfare support for implementing of International Students (2009) recommendations contained in the ■ Baird Report on the Education Chaney Report. Members of the Services for Overseas Students International Education Advisory (ESOS) Act 2000 (2010) Council must have been wondering ■ Knight Strategic Review of the if their good work would ever see Student Visa Program (2011) the light of day. ■ Higher Education Base Funding The new Prime Minister, Tony Review (2011) Abbott, has an opportunity to ■ Establishment of the Tertiary take strong, decisive action to Education Quality and restore our status as a destination Standards Agency (2012) of choice for international students ■ Review of the Student Visa and to work collaboratively with Assessment Level Framework the industry. Such collaboration will (2012–13) ensure that Australia’s aspirations ■ Australia in the Asian Century to become a globally engaged White Paper (2012) and respected knowledge economy become a reality. 4 | VISTA The election last month of the Coalition Government provides us all with an opportunity to draw a line in the sand on inaction and get down to work. IEAA EXCELLENCE AWARDS This edition of Vista showcases Last but not least, Janice Boey individuals and teams who have from Monash University has been been recognised by IEAA for awarded the IEAA ‘Outstanding their leadership and innovation Postgraduate Thesis’ Award for in international education. These her PhD analysing the education are people who are making our experience and career outcomes aspirations for the international of Malaysian graduates. You can education industry a reality. read all about this year’s winners from page 12 onwards. IEAA has recognised Jennie Lang at the University of New South As many of you know, Professor Wales with the ‘Distinguished Tony Adams was IEAA’s Foundation Contribution to International President and a great mentor Education’ Award. Dr Cynthia to many people working in Cliff from Queensland University international education. The Tony of Technology has received Adams Fund has been set up in the ‘Excellence in Leadership in his memory and provides financial International Education’ award. support for international education professionals to further their The Council of International careers and work. The Professional Students Australia (CISA) has been Development Grant for this year acknowledged for their strong has gone to Ellen Gibson from advocacy and promotion of the the Queensland University of rights and interests of international Technology and the Research in students with the ‘Excellence in International Education Grant has Professional Commentary Related gone to Mark Tayar from Swinburne to International Education’. Online. You can read all about this Congratulations also go to the year’s recipients on pages 20–21. awardees in the ‘Best Practice/ The European Association of Innovation in International International Education (EAIE) has Education’ category. This year IEAA also created an award to honour recognises the innovative work of: Tony’s memory. The Tony Adams ■ Griffith University for its English Award for Excellence in Research Language Enhancement Strategy recognises a thesis, article or paper ■ English Australia, UNSW and that impacts internationalisation Cambridge English Assessment theory or practice. This year’s for their Action Research in recipient, announced at the ELICOS Program EAIE conference in Istanbul ■ The team at The University of in September, was Dr Rahul Queensland and Queensland Choudaha from World Education University of Technology (QUT) for Services for his work in international ‘the desk’ – an online program recruitment and marketing. to promote resilience and well- being in tertiary students. Helen Zimmerman IEAA President SPRING 2013 | 5 THE NEW COLOMBO WHAT CAN WE EXPECT? PLAN Thought the New As with any new Government, In her previous role as Shadow Colombo Plan was departmental restructures, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Julie rebadging of programs and new Bishop discovered there was simply AsiaBound names stamped on policy initiatives a great deal of goodwill shown reincarnated? are inevitable. This may well be towards Australia when she Think again, writes the manner in which a number of met with former Colombo Plan Gillard/Rudd Government programs students on her frequent trips to Phil Honeywood. depart this world and resurface our neighbouring region. Keen under the Coalition. However, to see more young Australians cynics would be wrong to suggest gain access to meaningful study this will be the case with the Abbott and work experience in Asia, she Government’s student mobility plan. thought the region’s leaders would understand and support the notion In fact, the new Foreign of a ‘reverse Colombo Plan’. Affairs Minister, Julie Bishop, conceptualised what she then The concept would give thousands referred to as the ‘Reverse of young Australians access to the Colombo Plan’ quite some time same transformative experience before the Labor Government in Asia (albeit at the Australian announced its ‘AsiaBound’ Government’s and their own initiative. Now in published form, expense) that the region’s leaders as the ‘New Colombo Plan’, it is had in our country. As this policy worthwhile to examine some of its idea gained traction, the ‘Reverse key differences with ‘AsiaBound’. Colombo Plan’ also envisaged providing scholarships to Asian Why the name students to study in Australia. On this basis, it could no longer simply ‘New Colombo Plan’? be ‘reverse’ (implying one direction For those old enough to remember, by Australians only) but needed to Australia gained enormous kudos be termed ‘new’ Colombo Plan. when, as part of the post-World War II Asian nation rebuilding How is it different effort, it signed an agreement to AsiaBound? in Sri Lanka’s capital to offer Sometime after Julie Bishop scholarships for Asian students to detailed her policy initiative, the study at Australia’s universities. Gillard Government announced a From the 1950s up to the late-1970s similar scheme called ‘AsiaBound’. many