According to Fiona Buffinton, head of Australian Education International, a government agency, about a third of the country's foreign students are motivated mainly by the hope of gaining residence, and a third primarily by the education on offer, while also nursing hopes of staying on.
According to the report just one third of countries have achieved all of the measurable Education for All (EFA) goals set in 2000.
But US President Bill Clinton and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair said the targets set out at the Okinawa summit were not only to relieve Third World debt but to offer basic education to all the world's children within 15 years and set new targets to combat killer diseases.
Recognizing the urgency of this situation, some 800 education specialists and representatives from governmental and non-governmental organizations, industrial leaders and entrepreneurs will meet in Shanghai (China) from 13 to 16 May for the Third International Congress on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET).
The third and final section, New Models of Education, features four essays describing alternative education market structures.
Bush also apparently picked up ground on education and health care in the third debate, which concentrated on domestic issues.
Around a fifth of university students in Australia were born abroad, and international education is the country's third-biggest export after coal and iron ore.
The most recent data show that in one-third of the countries, half of all children do not complete primary education.
Third, we are helping Americans get the education they need to succeed in a global economy.
Two separate petitions were handed in by a teenager and a geography teacher, with a third group voicing their concerns by emailing the Education Secretary Michael Gove.
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We must train the teachers, a third of whom have only a college education.
The third central role of the health care sector is in education and advocacy around climate change policy.
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Just a fraction of New York City's public schoolchildren ride buses, but about a third of the 150, 000 who do are special education students, including children who use wheelchairs.
In fact, according to the National Endowment for Financial Education, about one-third (31 percent) of US adults who combined assets with a spouse or partner say they have been deceptive about money, and women are more likely than men to say their partner or spouse lied to them about finances, debt, money earned (65 percent vs. 47 percent respectively).
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Lastly, third-party payments to higher education have greatly obfuscated the final price that students pay.
Of the total rise in expenditure on public services in the three years ahead, a fifth goes to education and a third to health.
In April, after months of this education campaign, Ryan formally unveiled a third version of the Roadmap, renamed the Path to Prosperity.
The third way to make gifts is to pay someone else's medical or education bills directly.
Only a third of the federal government's drug-control spending goes on drugs education or drugs treatment.
The third challenge we must address is the urgent need to expand the promise of education in America.
The greatest progress has been achieved in gender parity, particularly in primary education, although gender disparity remains in almost a third of the countries with data.
Mr Haq liked to quote the example of Costa Rica, which, he said, chose to abolish its army and now spends a third of its national income on education and health, and is the only prosperous democracy in Central America.
Third responsibility that we have as a nation is to invest in the skills and education of our young people.
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Mr Jones's defence of education policy came after Mr Bull highlighted a recent report from the education inspectorate Estyn which said standards were not good enough in nearly a third of schools.
For the third year in a row, our team at the U.S. Department of Education has gone on a back-to-school bus tour.
Third, many of the most important challenges for innovators involve vast systems, such as education and health care, or giant problems, such as global warming.
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And in the past four years, the number of students at England's further-education colleges has risen by a third, despite a slight fall in their real funding.
One-third of the grandparents raising children had not finished high school, and 62% had no college education.
Everyone knows that the Liberal Democrats, Britain's third party, want to raise an extra penny in the pound on income tax to spend on education.
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