Uni students paid to go to Asia

Aussie university students will be eligible for grants of up to $5000 to broaden their cultural horizons in Asian countries such as Thailand. Picture: Thinkstock Source: Supplied

THOUSANDS of Australian tertiary students will gain access to small study grants to travel to Asia from next year, the Federal Government will announce today.

The Gillard Government will commit $37 million over three years to a new Asia-Bound Grant program, with between $2000 and $5000 offered to young adults undertaking short work/study periods abroad in an Asian country.

The scheme aims to promote work in Asian countries to the benefit of both the students and the host organisation.

Flinders University will be among the institutions involved at the Australian end through its support of the Volunteer for Visayans Community Feeding Project in the Philippines.

Student placements will entail "planning, budgeting and support in the daily feeding of up to 35 pre-school children".

The new program is part of the Government's Asian Century White Paper process and is designed to foster stronger links, and to integrate Asian language and culture more fully into Australian post-school education.

Tertiary Education Minister Chris Evans will announce details of the new scheme today in Canberra which will also feature $1000 grants for Asian language preparatory study and $1000 top-up grants for "intensive language training".

"Asia-Bound will support more than 10,000 Australian students to enjoy the experience of living and studying in an Asian country," he said.

He said the program had been designed to provide Australians with "the opportunity to build lifelong professional networks and friendships".

"In addition, all Australian students, across all disciplines, will have greater support to take up part of their study in Asia," he said.

"Through the Australia in the Asian Century White Paper, we aim to have a larger number of Australian university students studying overseas and a greater proportion undertaking part of their degree in an Asian country by 2025."

Senator Evans said the next generation of Australian leaders "will need to be increasingly Asian-literate and these are skills best learnt by experiencing Asia first-hand".

"The updated scheme means low-cost, student-friendly loans to give more students assistance to take some of their study overseas."

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