The incidence and severity of mental illness amongst international students in Australia are growing, according to a new case study to be presented this week. The study, which focuses on Chinese students due to their high numbers here, has found ...
More »Gong to Gujarat: Illawarra invests in India
The Illawarra region of NSW will soon be at the forefront of Australian education in India, with plans to start training workers in the state of Gujarat. It was announced last week that Illawarra Institute of TAFE and the University of ...
More »Student parents run the healthcare gauntlet
A Malaysian couple obtaining PhDs from Monash University has struggled to obtain maternity care in Australia. It was only after traipsing to a sixth public hospital in Melbourne that international students Shamsul Mohideen and his wife, Azleena Mohamad, were finally ...
More »Sector must be heard, says new IEAA chief
The international education sector has a tendency to “slip through the cracks” in this country, and that’s something that the International Education Association of Australia’s new chief plans to change. Phil Honeywood, IEAA’s new chief executive, started in the job last ...
More »Free to think, or is it free-thinking
University autonomy is ranked across 26 European countries in a major new report from the European University Association (EUA). In addition to an in-depth analysis of the current state of institutional autonomy in Europe, the study includes four scorecards that ...
More »A better deal for overseas students
The Australian Human Rights Commission is drawing up a list of minimum standards for the international education sector writes Helen Szoke. Laurence Peters was an educationalist most famously known as the creator of the Peter Principle. His focus was on competency ...
More »Medical students take expertise offshore
Valuable foreign medical students are being deterred from Australian study by anxiety about the graduate internship bottleneck, says global migration researcher, Professor Lesleyanne Hawthorne. Professor Hawthorne is associate dean international at the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and ...
More »No apology over healthcare knockback
The Queensland government has defended its controversial decision to deny specialist health care to international students at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital. State health minister Geoff Wilson told Campus Review the state “made no apology” for refusing obstetric and ...
More »ANU Burma fracas – the studied bite back
That researcher Ashley South is upset his report received a strongly worded response from the Karen National Union (The Nation 22/08/11 and Campus Review 31/10/11) indicates both his naivety as a public writer and his arrogance. South cites two articles ...
More »Assessing research excellence
Funding councils in the UK have been trying to find metrics that would be able to replace the costly process of peers reading and judging all submissions. By Jeroen Huisman.
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