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Overseas students and local students in Australia

THE GRAPHS BELOW SHOW THE ENROLMENTS OF OVERSEAS STUDENTS AND LOCAL STUDENTS IN AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES OVER A TEN YEAR PERIOD.

SUMMARISE THE INFORMATION BY SELECTING AND REPORTING THE MAIN FEATURES, AND MAKE COMPARISONS WHERE RELEVANT.

The graphs show the differences between enrolments of overseas students and local students.
First of all, we easily see that the number of overseas students has increased for ten years. In contrast, the number of local students has stayed almost the same and stable population can be a reason account for it.

On the graph that shows us information about overseas students, we see that there was numerous of overseas students increased between 2006 and 2009, for details, 2000 students came to Australia for university within three years. After that, we still can see the increasing tendency. On the other hand, the line on the second graph doesn't show us any idea or any tendency. We can easily see that the number of students has decreased for 3 years, from 2008 to 2010.

To sum up, the differences between the number of overseas students and local students are not only the tendency but also the enrolments.

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