Hot topics

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Here are some of the topics that were explored and discussed at AIEC 2024.

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Strategic insights

Essential insights and market intelligence designed to help you plan for the immediate and longer term:

  • Global dialogue: updates from International Education Associations around the world
  • Mitigating the impact of international education on the climate
  • Australia’s shifting landscape in the global student market
  • Designing internationalisation strategies through indigenous values
  • Global student flows: understanding the next wave
  • Building better TNE strategies
  • How geopolitics affects Australia’s international education
  • Global demographic shifts and implications for international education
  • What bilateral US-Australian government priorities signal for international education
  • Research vs reality – financial pressures relating to the cost of living and accommodation
  • Keys to success for Australian universities in the Middle East
  • Charting new horizons from South Asia
  • Expanding Australia’s offshore delivery
  • Diversifying Asian student cohorts
  • Growing Australia’s forgotten emerging markets: A focus on Latin Europe
  • Skills solutions in Southeast Asia
  • Trends in Sino-Foreign Higher Education TNE programs
  • Innovations in learning abroad for global impact
  • The cost of student acquisition conundrum
  • Measuring the ROI of scholarships in student recruitment
  • TNE in emerging markets
  • The future of Australia-China school partnerships
  • What’s ahead for TNE in India?
  • Global perspectives on the quality of English language education
  • Promoting the value of international education to Australia

Country and Regional insights

Dedicated country and region-specific sessions to ensure you have the latest updates on developments and opportunities including: 

  • Bhutan
  • Cambodia
  • China
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Kenya
  • Laos
  • LATAM
  • Latin Europe
  • Nigeria
  • Philippines
  • Saudi Arabia
  • South Korea
  • Southeast Asia
  • Taiwan
  • Vietnam

Marketing insights

Key sessions that focus on innovations in marketing, communications and recruitment:

  • Humanising the digital customer journey
  • Using data and AI to build real relationships with prospective students
  • Student driven marketing and communication
  • Managing multi-country portfolios and staying human
  • Leveraging WhatsApp to engage international students from Asia
  • New international student recruitment channels
  • The pursuit of genuine students in India
  • How future international students engage with content
  • Global perspectives on shifting agent perceptions
  • Monitoring agent aggregators
  • Digital marketing trends
  • Market diversification strategies

Student insights

Sessions dedicated to helping you to better understand, support and engage with international students:

  • Voice of the international student
  • Supporting best practice international student engagement and experience
  • The human element of ESOS compliance: what do our students think?
  • Innovations in career support for international student career readiness
  • Engaging your student leaders in a globalised world
  • Insights into the international student journey
  • The experiences of Latin American students in Australia
  • Understanding the impact of hostile policy on the international student experience
  • Creative initiatives for student success
  • New visa protections for international students
  • Women’s empowerment programs for international students
  • Harnessing student voice and partnerships
  • Hybrid approaches to delivering student services
  • Revolutionising employability for international students
  • Creating human connections between employers and international students

Policy insights

Latest policy changes presented by policy makers, government representatives and other key experts in the field:

  • Policy headwinds: a 360 analysis of issues facing Australia, UK and Canada
  • Policy directions in international education
  • English language policy settings
  • New visa settings: impact of complaints to the Commonwealth Ombudsman
  • Modernisation of PRISMS
  • New Colombo Plan
  • Australian National Strategy for International Education

Innovation and technology insights

New ways of working smarter, teaching, learning and engaging through technology:

  • The intersection of AI and human values in international admissions
  • AI in the teaching and learning context
  • Applying UDL to online courses for international students
  • Assessment Renaissance: authentic design in the era of generative AI
  • AI in international education: challenges and opportunities in student engagement
  • Using data and AI to build real relationships with prospective students
  • Cyber attack preparedness and response in international education
  • Building authentic international student communities in a tech-led world

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Key dates

6 Feb - Call for proposals opens

14 March - Call for proposals closes

May - Registration open

mid-June - Program released

31 July - Super early bird registration closes

12 September - Early bird registration closes

14–17 October – AIEC 2025