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Date: September 18, 1997
Higher Education in Australia
Is Subject of WWS LecturePrinceton, N.J. -- Don Smart, associate professor of education policy at the University of Western Australia and Murdoch University, will give a lecture entitled "The Internationalization of Australian Higher Education" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Tuesday, September 30, at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Bowl 5.
In addition to teaching, Smart is the coordinator of education policy studies at the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch and has served as a consultant to many education agencies, including the W.A. Higher Education Commission, the Federal Department of Employment Education and Training (DEET), and the International Development Program of the Australian Universities (IDP). He has a particular interest in comparative higher education policy and is the co-author, with William Lowe Boyd of the Pennsylvania State University, of Education Policy in Australia and America (1987).
With coauthor Grace Ang, he has published the results of a number of studies on Australia's full-fee student recruitment policies and prospects in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. In 1996, Smart and Ang, with Dr. Simone Volet, consulted with the Australian National Training Authority on the emerging demand by the Australian export business sector for "Asian literacy" and the implications for the sector on vocational education and training. The three are currently studying strategies for fostering greater social cohesion between Australian and international students.
His lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
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