In October AEI’s student website, ‘Study in Australia’ www.studyinaustralia.gov.au experienced very strong traffic with over 86,000 visitors accessing the website, staying for an average time in excess of 7 minutes.
Further analysis shows that Asia is by far the strongest source of traffic with about 55% followed by North America with 20%, Oceania with around 11% followed by both Europe and South America around 6% with Africa measuring less than 1%.
The foreign language versions continue to perform well registering the following traffic flows:
| Language |
Percentage of Traffic |
| English |
55.04% |
| Chinese (Simplified) |
14.46% |
| Japanese |
8.58% |
| Chinese (Traditional) |
3.96% |
| Spanish |
3.14% |
| Korean |
2.29% |
| Portuguese |
3.28% |
| Vietnamese |
1.76% |
| Thai |
3.05% |
| Arabic |
2.63% |
| Indonesian |
0.71% |
As mentioned in the September 2003 report, more languages are in the pipeline for the Study in Australia website. Arabic is almost finalised and will shortly join the existing English, Chinese (traditional and simplified), Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai and Vietnamese language versions.
AEI recently consulted with industry to identify the next language for translation. The unanimous decision was Russian and this will be available by the end of March 2004.
Student Response Facility
The Student Response Facility (SRF) is a service provided through the Study in Australia website enabling students to get more detailed answers to their enquiries. In October the SRF received 190 enquiries. Since its launch in July 2001 there have been over 3,288 enquiries made via this facility.
The origin of enquiries by the top 5 countries are:
| Country |
Percentage of Total |
| India |
20.89% |
| China |
15.18% |
| Pakistan |
5.22% |
| United Kingdom |
4.67% |
| Brazil |
4.57% |
Study Wizard
The Study Wizard is an intuitive process that guides students through searching for and selecting courses and institutions, the visa process as well as identifying living and other costs. Since July 2001 over 28,883 Study Wizard profiles have been created on the website. The top 5 countries where profiles were created over this period are:
| Country |
Percentage of Total |
| India |
18.04% |
| Australia |
9.99% |
| China |
6.58% |
| United Kingdom |
4.35% |
| Pakistan |
4.06% |
Scholarships Database
The Scholarships Database allows students to search the most comprehensive, accurate and reliable list of scholarships available to international students. In October there were over 11,588 visits to the scholarships database.
Promote Your Institution on the SIA Site:
AEI promotes the Study in Australia site widely around the world through search engine placement, advertising, and the distribution of specialised promotional materials. Many agents refer students to the site to check the legitimacy of claims sourced elsewhere. Potential students can quickly confirm an institution's CRICOS registration, search for CRICOS registered courses and look for relevant scholarships.
AEI offers CRICOS registered institutions the opportunity to place additional information, including images, about their courses, services and education environment on the Study in Australia website, free-of-charge. If your institution has not already provided additional information, details on the process are available at zhttp://www.studyinaustralia.gov.au/sia/_details/details.htm
Further Details:
Further detail on any of these figures is available by contacting: webmaster@studyinaustralia.gov.au