About MCRIE

What is International Education?

Increasingly 'flows' of students, staff, managers, information, images and ideas, courses, infrastructure and finances are crossing national and cultural boundaries for educational purposes. The emergence of a 'knowledge economy' is opening education to new forms of international competition and collaboration and creating the need for a fundamental reappraisal of educational purposes, practices and pedagogies. While the field of international educational practice has grown rapidly, the issues surrounding it are generally under-researched and under-theorised.

Monash University has long been acknowledged as Australia's leading international university so it was natural that it should provide a practical response to the need to understand this evolving field. 

The Monash centre for Research in International Education was established to: 

• Conduct research into the internationalisation of education
• Develop and deliver award courses in international education
• Support the free exchange of views, ideas, information and research on international education

Since it was established in 1997, MCRIE has made significant steps towards achieving these goals. It has secured a number of grants, research projects and consultancies spanning Higher Education, Vocational Education and Training, and Secondary Schooling. 

It has successfully introduced an 'International Education' pathway comprising Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma programs and a new Master of Education specialising in International Education. These courses are provided via distance education and have attracted considerable interest from educational professionals from around Australia. MCRIE also has a significant number of students who are working overseas. 

MCRIE has developed collaborative arrangements with several Asian universities for the delivery of short courses and plans similar arrangements with other universities in the region. The Centre's staff and associates have presented a range of papers at international conferences and are actively extending their networks with other researchers working in the field.