Rebecca Hall, Assistant Director-General Policy, External Relations and International at Queensland Department of Education, shares her journey in international education starting with her undergraduate studies in International Business, which took her doing an internship in Malaysia., and how the importance of internationalization crystallised for her when she went to Japan on the JET program.
Rebecca tells about the growing opportunities for transnational education in the international school market, and for Australian education providers more generally in the context of current policy changes around international student recruitment. She emphasises the importance for the international educator sector, in Australia and beyond, to maintain their social licence, including by tracking the benefits of international education and sharing those benefits with society at large... and she shares the memorable experience of developing in the early days of the career an innovative partnership in Chile with TAFE Queensland