ISA has prepared this submission as feedback for the Australian Government Department of Education’s Draft for Consultation: Australia’s International Education and Skills Strategic Framework.
Australia’s International Education and Skills Strategic Framework Draft for Consultation updates the Australian Strategy for International Education 2021-2030 in some significant ways. There is an increased focus on ‘Skills’ (now included in the strategy title), and there has been a shift in the Government’s approach – from working with the sector to achieve outcomes, to actively managing strategic outcomes. While other strategic objectives are retained, some receive less emphasis and arguably less support in the new Framework.
In this submission, ISA addresses the focus questions in the Draft Framework and comments more broadly on the implications of the Framework’s objectives and actions for the non-government schools sector.