Constructing the 'Study in Australia [TM] experience' : full fee paying overseas students in state government schools - a small but integral player

This study investigates the ways in which Australian state government schools have taken on a 'small but integral role' in the much larger international education industry over the previous fifteen years, and the dominant meanings that have emerged through related processes of neoliberal styled commodification. International student programs involving full fee paying overseas students in these schools have been represented and promoted to both local and overseas audiences for different purposes but with the unifying theme of 'success'. This publically available overriding discourse of 'success' however, did not always correspond with critical scholarly research. The aim of this study therefore, was to collect and consider sources of available knowledge about International student programs as a distinct part of a much larger industry, and to analyse and discuss the construction and representations of these programs. The study will contribute to a small, neglected, but distinct part of a much larger field of research; international education. This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author. Author requested conversion to open access 4 May 2023