Curtin’s leadership in transnational education was centre stage in Austrade’s Future Skills Mission to Thailand and Cambodia, which ran from 12 March to 14 March 2025.

In an invited panel discussion in both countries, Curtin’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor Global Professor Xiaotian Zhang outlined the partnership models and successes that Curtin has enjoyed between opening its first overseas campus in Miri, Malaysia, in 1999 and its fifth in Colombo, Sri Lanka, last year.

Curtin was praised for its leadership in transnational education in Cambodia by H.E. Dr Hang Chuon Naron, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Youth, and Sports of Cambodia and H.E. Ngoy Mak, Director-General of the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sport of Cambodia.

Thank you to Professor Zhang and everyone involved in this successful panel discussion.

A panel of six people sitting in front of an audience, with a big screen behind them that reads 'Panel Discussion, Cambodia and Australia, Readiness for Partnerships in a Changing World'
In Cambodia, Curtin Deputy Vice-Chancellor Global Professor Xiaotian Zhang describes Curtin’s recipe for successful transnational education partnerships.