Private international students happy here: survey

Most international students at private colleges are happy with both their agents and their study experience – and most don’t plan to live here permanently, according to a new survey.

Around 86 per cent of international students at private colleges are satisfied or very satisfied with all aspects of their college experience, according to a survey commissioned by the Australian Council for Private Education and Training (ACPET). The survey of almost 10,000 students at 39 colleges also found that almost as many - 85 per cent - were satisfied with their agents, while just 9 per cent said they'd enrolled with permanent residency in mind. International engagement manager Steve Quirk said ACPET hadn't cherry-picked the colleges involved in the survey, which included an even...