Australia’s $13 billion export education industry has defied predictions of a sharp slump in demand to register a 10-15 per cent spike in applications this year. Some universities are even predicting a boom year ahead as the world slips further into recession. The latest 2009 enrolment figures, compiled by a group of university directors of international education and obtained by the HES, suggest that the global economic crisis will trigger a flight to higher education. The Australian, 4 February 2009