Japan higher education seminar
9 January 2014

 The Japan-Australia Higher Education Seminar held in Tokyo on 3 December 2013 brought policymakers and higher education experts together from Australia and Japan to discuss the opportunities and challenges involved in internationalising universities.

The seminar also provided an opportunity to showcase Australia’s strengths in higher education, highlighting some of the main policies and approaches that have driven the successful internationalisation of Australia’s education sector.

Japan, like other countries in North East Asia, is looking to substantially increase the number of international students studying at Japanese universities, with a target to double numbers of enrolments by 2020.

Japanese universities represented at the seminar included: Nagoya University, Tohoku University, the Tokyo Institute of Technology, the University of Tsukuba, Hitotsubashi University, Ritsumeikan University and Waseda University.

Japan is a pilot destination for the New Colombo Plan. The key theme of international student mobility and how it has contributed to quality learning and teaching outcomes in Australia’s higher education sector provided a useful framework in which to discuss the New Colombo Plan with Japanese universities.

This seminar was facilitated by departmental staff in Tokyo as an outcome of the 2012 Japan-Australia High Level Policy Dialogue. It is anticipated to be the first in a series of ongoing policy exchanges with Japanese universities.

Pictured: ​Key Speakers at the Australia-Japan Higher Education Seminar
.