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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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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