More than 380,000 international students enrolled at Australian education and training institutions in 2006 - and with good reason. With robust and comprehensive quality assurance frameworks, and rigorous consumer protection mechanisms, Australian education enjoys a well-deserved reputation for excellence.

Australian schools are world leaders in bringing online resources and technology into the classroom (and create online classrooms through technology!). And the vocational education and training sector is internationally renowned for producing highly skilled, career-ready graduates specifically geared to the identified needs of industry.

Australia's higher education sector enjoys extensive collaboration with inter-national research groups, yielding world class innovation across a wide range of disciplines. The Australian Government, meanwhile, is intent on gaining maximum return on its unprecedented levels of investment in higher education R&D. Given such a base, it is little wonder that Australia boasts one of the world's most highly educated and skilled workforces.