Education a big business as foreign students rush to Aussie colleges
Sydney
IN Ballarat, where the first mass Chinese migration to Australia was sparked by a 19th-century gold rush, Federation University is tapping its modern equivalent.
Chinese students are flocking to Australia, making up a fifth of some 400,000 people seeking an education Down Under. At Federation, more than 44 per cent of the students attending Australia's newest university come from overseas with most paying fees that are about double those paid by locals.
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