Australia Sees Surge in Foreign Students

Foreign students flocked to Australia last year, according to figures released by the Australian government last week, a trend that suggests that colleges and universities there have been the beneficiaries of tougher visa requirements imposed since 2001 in the United States.

Australia saw a 16.5-percent increase in the number of foreign college students, to approximately 167,000, in the 2003 academic year, which ended in November. The largest group of overseas students, approximately

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