University World News - AUSTRALIA: Alarming fall in Chinese student numbers: "For the first time in more than 14 years, an Australian minister for tertiary education has gone to China to try to head off a potentially disastrous collapse in the number of young Chinese studying in Australia.
Senator Chris Evans, a former immigration minister in the previous Labor government, headed a four-day, high-level university delegation to China last week. It was Evans' first international visit as Tertiary Education Minister and was, he said, intended 'to deepen educational cooperation between Australia and China and explore new opportunities for collaboration between universities in both countries'.
But the trip also signified that the cries of alarm emerging from Australia's universities about the prospect of a catastrophic fall in enrolments of Chinese students had begun to influence government decisions."
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