On Monday night in Beijing, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan launched Victoria’s China Strategy: For a New Golden Era, telling the audience her top three priorities were “education, education and education”.
Victoria’s public universities and TAFEs have 142 different partnerships with Chinese institutions and in 2024, China was the second largest source of international student enrolments in Victoria.
During her first official visit to China as Premier, Allan also signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will establish a Victoria-China Education Working Group. The Working Group will drive education cooperation from the primary to the tertiary level, including two-way exchanges between teachers and students, joint vocational programs, and sharing of language and culture.
Allan also announced that the revival of the Hamer Scholarship Program, which will support students from regional Victoria with $10,000 to study in China.
Education has been the largest services export for Victoria for the last 23 years. Despite the Federal Government’s policy agenda to reduce the flow of international students to Australia, the Victorian Government has continued to prioritise international education as a key export sector.
A copy of the Strategy is available here.
