female students are much more inclined to study abroad, a trend consistent across the UK, Europe and North America… It’s partly because there are more female students, but also because they are more likely to want to challenge themselves and to explore other cultures.
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Despite challenges and areas for improvement, the New Colombo Plan is a stellar example of reversal mobility, re-balancing regional and global student mobility, through which students from a developed country in the Global North like Australia enrich their learning and experiences through living and studying in the Indo-Pacific.
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Indo-Pacific host communities tend to more explicitly treat NCP students as active knowledge agents in their reciprocal learning, intellectual exchange and mutual learning of English and local languages.
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ad hoc and isolated initiatives of study abroad “may contribute to reinforcing the bias towards the more advantaged [students] and widening inequity in internationalisation and in graduate outcomes.
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Professor Ly Tran has received a Melbourne Asia Game Changer Award 2021 for making a positive difference to Australia’s relationship with Asia.
November 18, 2021 — Asia Society’s Global Asia Game Changer Awards comes to Australia, celebrating those making a positive difference to Australia’s relationship with Asia. MasterChef Australia’s Melissa Leong shares the stories of our three inaugural Game Changers: Daizy Maan, Founder of Australian Digital Job Accelerator & Australian South Asian Centre, Ly Tran, Professor, School of Education, Deakin University and Australian Research Council Future Fellow, and Leah Jing McIntosh, Editor of Liminal Magazine.