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Foreign students paying $34m in tuition fees for public school
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By Bruce McDougall
May 25, 2009 12:00am
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,27574,25530918-5006009,00.html
PUBLIC schools have become one of the state's largest growth industries, enrolling thousands of foreign students and charging them up to $12,000 each in tuition fees.
Defying the global downturn, the number of international students paying to attend government schools in NSW soared by almost 30 per cent between 2007 and 2008.
The Daily Telegraph can reveal that overseas families ploughed almost $34 million into the state's education coffers by enrolling their children in 221 public primary and secondary schools last year.
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One quarter of the fee revenue is returned to schools while the rest is spent on education services and promoting public schools to other countries.
China, Korea and Vietnam are the biggest users of the scheme but students from more than 90 countries are enrolled across NSW.
A Homestay program has been set up to provide accommodation and school principals often travel to students' home countries to brief parents on their child's progress and deliver reports.
Overseas students enter Australian schools in one of two ways - as full fee-payers under the International Students' Program or as holders of a temporary visa paying partial or no fees.
Killarney Heights High School in Sydney's north has 120 foreign students enrolled, most paying full fees for an Australian education.
Principal Kim Jackson said yesterday competition for international places - allocated once all local children are enrolled - was so hot she was forced to decline applications.
"The (overseas) program gives the students a sense of working together and it is beneficial for the whole school," Ms Jackson said.
"Our schools give them balance where they can get good (academic) results and also participate in sports and other activities."
Chinese student Kun Shao, 17, said Killarney Heights High provided a relaxed learning environment compared to schooling at home.
"We are more free to choose our subjects in Australia," she said.
Enrolments of international students - which have been accepted since 1990 - increased from 2193 in 2007 to 2838 last year.
Turramurra High in the city's north, Cabramatta High and Ashfield Boys High in the west, Randwick Girls High and Randwick Boys High in the east and Kogarah High in the south are also major participants.
The Department of Education and Training (DET) said overseas families were choosing Australia because it was an English-speaking country known for high quality teaching and world class qualifications such as the HSC. |
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