The graphs below show the enrolments of overseas students and local students in Australian universities over a ten year period. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The graphs below show the enrolments of overseas students and local students in Australian universities over a ten year period.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
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The graphs illustrate the numbers of foreign and native
students
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who attended universities in Australia between 2001 and 2010, separating the information into total and commencing. At a first glance,
although
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the
number
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of enrolled overseas
students
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has markedly increased, the Australian
students
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' figures are much higher over the 10-year period.
According to
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the first graph, in 2001, approximately 12,000
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commencing non-Australians had registered with the universities,
while
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the total
number
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was 20,000. Afterwards, the popularity of studying in Australia
had
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dramatically increased and reached
the
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peak
at
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over 80,000
students
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in 2010,
while
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commencement had moderately increased over nine years.
Finally
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, it began to slowly climb in the
last
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year of the period. Compared with the
second
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graph, the total
number
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of local
students
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in 2001 was 2 times higher than that of foreigners, which was 40,000.
In addition
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, it significantly went up to over 80,000
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in the
next
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7 years, before remaining flat in the
last
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4 years.
However
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, the
number
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of commencing
students
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immediately jumped in the first year, from around 19,000 to 22,000
students
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.
Furthermore
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, there was a fluctuation over the following period and it never got higher than in 2002 or dipped lower than in 2001.
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Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "last, while".
Vocabulary: Replace the words students, number with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "graphs" was used 3 times.
Vocabulary: The word "numbers of" was used 4 times.
Vocabulary: The word "went up" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "increased" was used 3 times.
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