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AEI has released the PRISMS statistics for April 2012.
English Australia has produced a report which analyses the statistics provided for YTD April 2012 compared with previous years.
Member Colleges and Affiliates should Login to view the report on the English Australia website at:
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AEI Data - April 2012 - English Australia Analysis
[Please keep in mind that these statistics only refer to student visa holders and therefore underestimate the total number of students from many countries that attract large numbers of ELICOS students on other types of visas such as Visitor Visas or Working Holiday Visas. Colleges should refer to the annual English Australia ELICOS Industry Report for more detailed data regarding these other students. Nevertheless the AEI statistics are broken down by eCoE and therefore accurately reflect the number of student visa holders commencing courses in the ELICOS sector.]
Key Points
- All sectors except ELICOS show a decline in the number of commencements for YTD 2012, with a resulting overall decline across all sectors of -5.5%.
- YTD 2012 shows a plateauing of the decline for the ELICOS sector that started towards the end of 2009 and has continued since. ELICOS student visa commencements have grown by +1.1% for YTD 2012 to produce a total of 28,114 commencements. This growth represents 302 more commencing students than 2011. When compared with the peak year of 2009, however, the sector still shows a decline of -31%, representing 12,743 fewer commencing students.
- Although the overall decline in ELICOS numbers seems to have plateaued, the significant and continuing decline from China, Australia’s #1 source country, is of particular concern.
- The good news, however, is that April showed growth across all of the top ten countries and across overall ELICOS numbers. January showed a decline of -8.3% in ELICOS commencements, with February declining by -6.2% and March by -1.4%, however April showed growth of 29.2%.
- In both 2010 and 2011 all of the top 10 countries experienced declining numbers. YTD 2012 figures show declines from 4 countries in the top 10: China, Vietnam, Taiwan, Brazil; and growth from 6 countries: Spain, Colombia, Japan, Thailand, Korea, Saudi Arabia. Spain is included in the top 10 for the first time.
- Colombia showed the strongest growth of any country (students) with an additional 472 students.
- China showed the strongest decline of any country (students) with 1,305 fewer students.
- The strongest % decline was experienced by Tasmania, however the greatest decline in numbers of students was experienced by Queensland (-199).
- The strongest % growth was experienced by ACT, however the strongest growth in numbers of students was experienced by Victoria (+305).
- The average number of students enrolled at any one time in 2010 was down to 28,465, with 2011 dropping even further, down to 23,711. April 2012 shows an average head count of 21,670, 2,291 fewer than April 2011 and 10,988 fewer than April in the peak year of 2009.
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