Australia: Ques Tion

The Australian Ministry Of Foreign Affairs And Trade Dept: Academics are trained to be skeptical, so my immediate ques tion to him was: How did you calculate that? , according to The Chronicle Herald. We both agreed that although education may rank third in dollar terms, modern mining is a very capital intensive process and during the coffee break at an economics workshop last month in Brisbane, Australia, a senior official from the Australian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade casually remarked to me that Australia s top three exports are now coal, iron ore and educa tion. His reply was eminently reas onable. Since they wanted to know how much the incomes of Australians had increased due to the purchases of foreigners, they added the living expenses and transportation expenditures of foreign students while they were in Australia to the increase in tuition revenues of Australian language institutes, colleges and universities. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.