Dear Delegate

We invite you to join us inBrisbane in October for one of the highlights of our year – four days of information gathering, discussion and professional networking at the 22nd Australian International Education Conference (AIEC).

This year our conference theme Global Citizens, Global Impacts ties into the positive outcomes which international education has for students, for educational institutions, and for economic and social development in Australia and the surrounding region.

It is a timely theme for the 2008 conference, coming in the year that international education emerged as Australia’s largest services export and third largest export overall. The theme also highlights the positive impact which Australia’s efforts in international education have on the lives of hundreds of thousands of people each year. We can be proud to say that we make a difference!

This year the conference program will include sessions on mobility, transnational education, marketing and recruitment, teaching and learning, student and graduate experience, and international education policy. As always, there will be sessions of special interest to individual sectors of international education.

We extend a particular invitation to overseas delegates whose attendance gives a special dimension to the AIEC. And we also urge newcomers to international education to attend because there is no better way of informing yourself about the industry and making the key contacts you need to move ahead.

Once again this year’s conference will be jointly hosted by IDP Education Pty Ltd and the International Education Association of Australia. We trust that it will deliver you strong professional outcomes and help you renew the relationships you have established in our growing industry of international education.

We look forward to seeing you in Brisbane.

Yours sincerely,

Anthony Pollock

Chief Executive

IDP Education Pty Ltd

Tony Adams

President

International Education

Association of Australia