INTERNATIONAL postgraduate research student numbers in Australia have increased more rapidly than those in other programs, suggesting the country is finding traction in the global talent wars, new research has shown.

The number of overseas research students in Australia has grown by 67per cent from 2002 to 2007, while the number of international students in higher education has increased 52per cent, an IDP conference heard last week.

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OVERSEAS enrolments in the vocational education and training sector are booming, but universities are still the biggest export revenue earners in the education services sector.

New Australian Bureau of Statistics figures reveal education exports totalling $13.7 billion eclipsed tourism by $1.7billion in the past financial year.

Revenue includes fees and all other goods and service consumed by overseas students.

YOUNG Mauritians hit by the latest scam targeting international students are the victims of "the new slave traders", according to the Mauritian media.

Australia and Ireland are the most popular destinations for students from the island nation in the Indian Ocean, many of whom come to study "skills shortage" courses to speed up their quest for residence.

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The Prime Minister announced today that Australia would almost double the number of scholarships available for East Timorese students to undertake full-time undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Australia.

The number of places under the Government’s overseas aid program would increase from 12 to 20 in 2009, at a total cost of around $3 million per year.

INTERNATIONAL students are making a mockery of immigration laws by flouting visa conditions which limit them to 20-hour working weeks, with those driving taxis in Victoria clocking up to twice as many hours behind the wheel as they're allowed.

Despite a warning from Immigration Minister Chris Evans that taxi owners who employed students in breach of their visa restrictions risked up to two years' jail, cab advocacy bodies and student drivers revealed the industry was largely ignoring the law.

AUSTRALIA is recruiting overseas students to key university and vocational education pathways at three times the international average, a report from English Australia, the association of English teaching colleges, shows.

CHILE will pay to send up to 500 of its top university students each year to Australia for postgraduate education under a landmark agreement enabling long-term collaboration and exchange.

Universities Australia chairman Richard Larkins and Chilean Foreign Minister Alejandro Foxley signed the scholarship deal in Sydney yesterday.

The priority disciplines for masters and PhD study reflect similarities between the economies of the two nations and Chile's wish to partner with Australia in Asia-Pacific engagement.

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Group of Eight signs Human Capital Agreement with Chile

The Group of Eight universities will sign an Agreement with the Republic of Chile in Sydney today to allow up to 500 postgraduate students to study in Australia each year.

The Go8 Agreement complements the Free Trade Agreement to be signed by the Australian and Chilean Governments in Canberra on Wednesday 30 July.

The students will be supported by the new US$600million Chilean Bicentennial Scholarship Fund for Human Capital Development.