IDP Australia, a prominent international student service provider, has recently opened a large student centre in Perth, serving 36 000 international students in Western Australia. Services such as application processing and university placement, visa advice and assistance, city-orientation, internet access, and career counselling are being provided. With over 60 international education providers in Perth, the new IDP service centre aims to be a contact point for higher education and driver of the continued internationalisation of higher education in Western Australia. Other IDP student service centres are located in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane. A centre will open in Adelaide later this year.

IDP has a global network of 65 offices in nearly 30 countries and places about 20 000 students a year in Australian higher education institutions. IDP