The table compares the numbers of local and foreign research students who attended Australian universities in 2001 and 2010, while the pie charts show the gender profiles of these attendees.
It is clear that significantly more local students participated in research courses at Australian tertiary facilities than their international counterparts in both years. We can also see that research courses became more popular among females from other countries studying in Australia after nine years.
According to the table, in 2001, there were 33, 657 local research students in Australian colleges, which was approximately six times as many as the figure for international ones, 5, 192. Both numbers saw an increase in 2010, namely to nearly forty thousand and almost threefold, respectively. This also led to a rise in the total number of people attending research classes in Australia, reaching more than fifty-four thousand.
As for the pie charts, it is noticeable that the rise in the overseas research student number was more impressive, reflected by a higher proportion in 2010, which was 27% as opposed to 13% in 2001. Additionally, foreign females accounted for a mere 4% in research classes in 2001, but after nine years, their number outstripped that of international males, 15% compared to 12%. There were negligible differences between the rates of local feminine and masculine students in both years, 43% and 44% in 2001, and 35% and 38% in 2010.