International Education News April 2011

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International education news: April 2011
Ministry Suggests PhD As Basic Requirement For Lecturer Post At IPTA

Campus extremism 'a serious problem' say MPs and peers
Anger at wait on student visas
Shining dollar takes sparkle out of student market
Zip code: Association of University Administrators searches for the right metaphor
Fair Work Ombudsman cracks down on exploitation of foreign students
Macquarie University facing looming China crisis
Asia: The rise of higher education philanthropy
Asia: Can the private sector boost participation?
Tuition fees 2012: all universities to charge undergraduates at least £6,000
Soaring college fees drive Irish students to Australia
Age concern spurs Australian efforts to attract the young ones
Chinese eye other options
Universities come clean on fees, teachers vote to strike
Four things you shouldn't worry about in higher education policy
Wellings to leave UK for Australian post
A crisis in international education in Australia
Universities call for "fine-tuning" of student visas based on enrolling institution
'Brain Reclaim' as talent returns to Asia from West
Chill goodbye to our Indian summers
Australia’s watchdog warns of US-style ‘long tail’ of bad institutions
Australia launches Hindi website for Indian students
Overseas student numbers dwindle
West meets East with new Asian campuses
Bigger Private-Sector Role Recommended for Middle East
Bribery charges laid over language tests
The trouble with homes away from home
Perak To See Another Private Higher Learning Institution
Following the lead of US universities
Australian education industry witnesses drop in foreign students
Combined international education agency to boost (NZ) sector
Overseas student intake falls
While the Asian tigers are growling the American education eagle is soaring on increased
international demand
Three plead guilty in uni bribe scandal
Australian students in the dark as Asia's century dawns
Soft marking net may be cast wider
'It's like we are a different class of people here'
939 Filipinos receive Australian scholarships
The show MUST go on
China & Hong Kong: Thorny issues of higher education ties
Singapore-Yale tie-up to proceed despite controversy
Doubts over student qualifications
Immigration group slams overstayer ruling
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Ministry Suggests PhD As Basic Requirement For Lecturer Post At IPTA

Bernama, Malaysian Nat'l News
April 28 2011
The Higher Education Ministry on Thursday suggested that doctorate degree (PhD) be made the basic
requirement for lecturer post at all public institutions of higher learning in the country.
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Its deputy minister, Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah, said this was necessary to achieve the 75 per cent
lecturers with Phd in research universities and 40 per cent at other universities....
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http://goo.gl/jecvB
Campus extremism 'a serious problem' say MPs and peers

BBC, UK
April 28 2011
Campus extremism is a "serious problem" that threatens UK security, a group of MPs and peers has said.
There are "grave concerns" students are being radicalised in British universities, according to a report
by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Homeland Security....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/hWbio
Anger at wait on student visas

Adelaide Advertiser
May 03 2011
BUSINESS SA says we are losing foreign students because it is taking three months to approve visas.
Chief executive officer Peter Vaughan has written to the Federal Government to complain that an
overseas student seeking a study visa in Australia must wait up to 12 weeks while an applicant....
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http://goo.gl/tMF2l
Shining dollar takes sparkle out of student market

The Sydney Morning Herald
April 30 2011
THE surging dollar is alarming Australian universities facing a drop in international student numbers.
With the Aussie breaching $US1.09 this week on its way to a 30-year high, currency traders are
warning of the toll on education. There are about 620,000 international students in Australia, about 39
per cent of whom are in higher education....
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http://goo.gl/aBAcG
Zip code: Association of University Administrators searches for the right metaphor
Times Higher Education
April 28 2011
The division between academics and university administrators persists despite attempts to bring the two
camps closer together, an international study suggests.
Maree Conway, former president of the Association for Tertiary Education Management in Australia....
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http://goo.gl/AJjmV
Fair Work Ombudsman cracks down on exploitation of foreign students

Media release: Senator the Hon Christopher Evans
April 27 2011
The Minister for Tertiary Education, Senator Chris Evans, today welcomed a court decision to fine a
Victorian employer $150 000 for exploiting international students.
After a successful prosecution by the Fair Work Ombudsman, Melbourne Magistrate’s Court also
ordered the operators of the two 7-Eleven stores in Melbourne and Geelong to pay the students....
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http://goo.gl/a9agq
Macquarie University facing looming China crisis

The Australian
April 27 2011
MACQUARIE University vice-chancellor Steven Schwartz has admitted his institution will face a funding
crisis next year if forecasts for falling Chinese student enrolments are accurate.
Immigration officials have signalled visa applications from China are down 20 per cent, but education
industry insiders believe the slump could be....
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http://goo.gl/hN8my
Asia: The rise of higher education philanthropy

University World News
April 24 2011
Universities around Asia watched with envy as Singapore's Nanyang Technological University received a
US$120 million donation from the Lee Foundation early this year - the largest amount from a private
donor received by a single institution in Singapore - and when Lei Zhang from China donated
US$8,888,888 (eight is a lucky number) to Yale University in....
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http://goo.gl/77fR8
Asia: Can the private sector boost participation?

April 24 2011
Governments in many developed countries such as Australia, the US and the UK initiated public
management reforms in the 1980s. One of the most significant and specific concerns of the reforms has
been to introduce private sector practices in the public sector. The primary aim is to help governments
achieve their goals more efficiently, economically and effectively. Education has been one of the key....
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http://goo.gl/EDu0I
Tuition fees 2012: all universities to charge undergraduates at least £6,000

The Guardian, UK
April 20 2011
Ministers have suffered a major blow to their tuition-fee reforms after the government's access
watchdog revealed that all universities intend to charge at least £6,000 a year.
The Office for Fair Access (Offa) announced that every one of the 123 universities and university
colleges in England intend to charge £6,000 or more to full-time undergraduates from autumn 2012....
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http://goo.gl/0n6H1
Soaring college fees drive Irish students to Australia

The Herald
April 21 2011
THE rising cost of third-level education in Ireland is leading to a "mass exodus" of Irish students to
Australia.
There has been a 40pc increase in inquiries from Irish students about Australian one- year temporary
visas in the first quarter of this year, according to....
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http://goo.gl/GfMZG
Age concern spurs Australian efforts to attract the young ones

April 21 2011
Australia's growing sector must redouble its efforts to recruit new academic blood, writes Simon Baker
While attention on higher education in Australia has focused heavily on damage to its international
student market, domestic expansion and a new regulatory regime, a separate problem....
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http://goo.gl/plZnP
Chinese eye other options

The Australian
April 20 2011
AUSTRALIA's clout as an education power in China is under threat and likely to decline, Beijing-based
official Iain Watt has warned.
Mr Watt, from Australian Education International, said the US, Britain and the rest of Europe were
ramping up their presence in the China market and the Chinese were responding....
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http://goo.gl/Fb2Or
Universities come clean on fees, teachers vote to strike

The Guardian
April 19 2011
Today's the deadline for universities planning to charge over £6,000 in fees to tell Offa how they're
going to help disadvantaged students. Jeevan Vasagar has calculated that the average tariff....
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http://goo.gl/s6TMn
Four things you shouldn't worry about in higher education policy

The Guardian, UK
April 19 2011
Some 'radical ideas' circulating in higher education are anything but, says Paul Wakeling, so pay them
no attention because they're not going to happen
Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time on Radio 4 recently focused on the medieval university. Listening to the
broadcast, it reminded me how little has changed in some respects since the foundation of the
University....
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http://goo.gl/zVfqd
Wellings to leave UK for Australian post

April 20 2011
Paul Wellings, the vice-chancellor of Lancaster University and chair of the 1994 Group, is leaving the
UK to take the helm of an Australian university.
The head of the UK’s grouping of small research-intensive universities will become vice-chancellor of
Wollongong University in New South Wales....
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http://goo.gl/lNIav
A crisis in international education in Australia

OnlineOpinion.com.au
April 19 2011
Political debate about immigration in Australia appears to be following a familiar and alarmingly
simplistic trajectory. As the major parties clamour for victory on this hot-button issue, their instinct seems
to be to conflate complex policy areas to easily digestible sound-bytes. A complicit media, by
pandering to inherent public unease about population growth and illegal boat arrivals....
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http://goo.gl/3nJOQ
Universities call for "fine-tuning" of student visas based on enrolling institution

The Australian
April 18 2011
University Students on their graduation day at Sydney University. Picture: Renee Nowytarger Source:
The Australian
THE "extraordinary" burden on potential university students from countries including India and China
impedes Australian universities capacity to compete for high quality international students....
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http://goo.gl/S3jXF
'Brain Reclaim' as talent returns to Asia from West

April 17 2011
For at least a decade Asia has been the main source of international students to universities in the West,
with many graduates and researchers of Asian origin staying on as academics and scientists, never to
return home. But as Asia's economies boom and its higher education and research sector expands at the
same time as the West has suffered an economic downturn, the flow of talent is....
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http://goo.gl/Yr6Gl
Chill goodbye to our Indian summers

April 17 2011
We will rue the day we blew our chance with foreign students.
I DIDN'T need statisticians to tell me the foreign student bubble had burst - it was clear to see in my
local park. In the warmer months of 2009 and 2010, the cricket oval near our house resounded most
afternoons and evenings with the joyous sounds of....
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http://goo.gl/fY0x7
Australia’s watchdog warns of US-style ‘long tail’ of bad institutions

April 16 2011
The US higher education system is blighted by a “very long tail of really bad institutions that are taking
people’s money for degrees that don’t give any advantage at all to students”, according to the head of
Australia’s quality watchdog....
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http://goo.gl/rUXIo
Australia launches Hindi website for Indian students

The Times of India
April 15 2011
NEW DELHI: In a first by any foreign government, Australia on Friday launched a website in Hindi
aimed at providing better information access to families of prospective Indian students in Victoria.
The Hindi version of 'Study Melbourne' portal - http://www.studymelbourne.vic.gov.au/hindi - was....
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Overseas student numbers dwindle
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

April 13 2011
The shrinking amount of international students in Australia has resulted in job losses and college closures.
Factors such as the government visa crackdown and safety concerns have contributed to the slump being
faced by the once booming sector....
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http://goo.gl/OQV3t
West meets East with new Asian campuses

The Australian
April 13 2011
IT'S been noted the tide is turning in the globalised world of higher education. The flow of students,
ideas and researchers, until recently flowed from East to West. But an unprecedented investment in
higher education in Asia has changed the game....
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http://goo.gl/kopAv
Bigger Private-Sector Role Recommended for Middle East

The Chronicle of Higher Education
April 13 2011
Middle Eastern countries need to look to the private sector to help educate their young people and
prepare them for the job market, argues a report, "Education for Employment: Realizing Arab Youth
Potential," sponsored by the World Bank's International Finance Corporation and by....
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http://goo.gl/hdblq
Bribery charges laid over language tests

April 08 2011
Nine people have been charged with a total of 59 bribery offences following a West Australian
corruption hearing into the manipulation of English-language competency tests.
The Corruption and Crime Commission (CCC) has charged the men over allegations that English test....
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http://goo.gl/ZU289
The trouble with homes away from home

The Age, Australia
April 07 2011
IT IS a downside of Melbourne's property boom that you don't hear much about - 10, 15 maybe 20
international students living in one home because rental accommodation is so scarce. ''Six students
sharing one apartment is quite normal,'' says Wesa Chau....
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http://goo.gl/5sNQ9
Perak To See Another Private Higher Learning Institution

Bernama, Malaysian Nat'l News
April 06 2011
This year, another private higher learning institution will be opened in Perak, offering twinning studies
programme with foreign universities.
Perak Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir said the SEGi University College (SUC),
currently operating in the federal capital of Kuala Lumpur, would open its branch campus in....
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http://goo.gl/ZzgtT
Following the lead of US universities

ABC News
April 07 2011
UWA is following the lead of US and Canadian universities with a shake up of its course structure (ABC:
Jonathan Beal)
It has been described by the student guild as the biggest shake up of course structures that has ever
been undertaken at the University of Western Australia.
From next year, 76 first degrees will be replaced by just five new undergraduate degrees....
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http://goo.gl/fTpUY
Australian education industry witnesses drop in foreign students

The Deccan Herald
April 06 2011
Australian institutions have witnessed a 30 per cent drop in enrollment by Indian students while total
admissions by overseas students decreased by 2.5 per cent during February this year as compared to
the same period....
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http://goo.gl/lDZKo
Combined international education agency to boost (NZ) sector

Steven Joyce
April 06 2011
Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce says a new Crown Agency to improve the way the government
supports and encourages international education will also help minimise....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/umP7q
Overseas student intake falls

The Age, Australia
April 06 2011
INTERNATIONAL student enrolments have dropped again, with the federal government recording a 2.5
per cent fall on last February's results.
The figures, out this week, will do little to quell fears that the slump is set to continue into 2012....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/hc69F
While the Asian tigers are growling the American education eagle is soaring on increased
international demand
The Australian
April 13 2011
AS Australia faces competition for international students from the Asian tigers, especially China, the
industry's eagle is again flying high. According to the US Council of Graduate Schools applications for
postgraduate courses at its members increased by 9 per cent for the 2010-11 academic year....
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http://goo.gl/Kvl6m
Three plead guilty in uni bribe scandal

April 13 2011
Three of eight men charged with bribery offences have pleaded guilty in court following a West
Australian corruption hearing into the manipulation of English-language competency tests.
Abdul Kader, Vimal Vinodray Majithiya and Pritesh Chetan Shah pleaded guilty to their bribery
charges in the Perth Magistrates Court....
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http://goo.gl/yzifk
Australian students in the dark as Asia's century dawns

The Age
April 13 2011
Future generations are ill-prepared for dealing with our major partners.
Two decades ago, Australia traded with China at about the level we now trade with Malaysia. For a
long time it was a slow-growing relationship - just a worm creeping up the graph. Then it jumped....
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http://goo.gl/CpNbg
Soft marking net may be cast wider

The Australian
April 13 2011
GIGI Foster, the academic whose research revealed evidence of soft marking of international students,
is having her ongoing work frustrated by universities not providing data in the wake of publicity over
her findings....
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http://goo.gl/cjmRB
'It's like we are a different class of people here'

April 12 2011
PHILIPA'S* perception of Sydney has changed since arriving as an international student three years ago.
She's lived in six different houses and would never recommend tertiary study in Australia to her friends.
''It's like we are a different class of people here,'' she says....
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http://goo.gl/F4W1k
939 Filipinos receive Australian scholarships

Manila Bulletin
April 10 2011
A total of 939 Filipinos have received Australian scholarships from 2000 to 2010, or roughly 100
awardees every year, the Australian Embassy in Manila revealed recently.
In fact, according to Australian Chargé d’Affaires Andrew Byrne, since the late 1940s, over 2,000
Filipinos were....
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http://goo.gl/bojde
The show MUST go on

The Star, Malaysia
April 03 2011
YOU rarely hear of universities closing down but if a report in an online news portal is to be believed,
the Malaysia University of Science and Technology (MUST) could be a first in Malaysia.
Alleged to be down to its last RM10mil, the report pictured a varsity at its knees and it was alleged that
the money in its coffers would barely last....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/NHGHd
China & Hong Kong: Thorny issues of higher education ties

April 03 2011
One of the little-publicised sections of China's economic plan for the next five years includes Hong Kong
for the first time since the former British colony's handover to China in 1997. However, Hong Kong and
southern China have already been forging higher education ties with a view to creating....
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http://goo.gl/dmH3Y
Singapore-Yale tie-up to proceed despite controversy

April 03 2011
After months of controversy and deliberations over funding, the National University of Singapore and
Yale University last week announced that they will establish a new autonomous Yale-NUS college within
two years as Singapore's first liberal arts college based on the US model.
The partnership is seen as a major development in Singapore's aim to become a knowledge hub....
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http://goo.gl/OQh3q
Doubts over student qualifications

The New Zealand Herald
April 02 2011
Korean students Christina Huh and Ben Baek were forced to pay for a worthless qualification from a
school for international students.
Christina Huh sounds like a model student. Her report card says she has passed every project on her
design course and is full of enthusiastic teacher comments such as....
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http://goo.gl/E5qv5
Immigration group slams overstayer ruling

The New Zealand Herald
April 01 2011
Immigration New Zealand's action in deporting foreign students without permits while simply issuing
warnings to schools that break immigration laws is unfair, says the watchdog group Kiwi Immigration
Watch.
The department has issued warnings to 20 education providers that have not complied with
immigration....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/YTkwk
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International education news: April 2011

 Ministry Suggests PhD As Basic Requirement For Lecturer Post At IPTA

Ministry Suggests PhD As Basic Requirement For Lecturer Post At IPTA

Campus extremism 'a serious problem' say MPs and peers

Anger at wait on student visas

Shining dollar takes sparkle out of student market

Fair Work Ombudsman cracks down on exploitation of foreign students

Macquarie University facing looming China crisis

Asia: The rise of higher education philanthropy

Asia: Can the private sector boost participation?

Tuition fees 2012: all universities to charge undergraduates at least £6,000

Soaring college fees drive Irish students to Australia

Age concern spurs Australian efforts to attract the young ones

Chinese eye other options

Universities come clean on fees, teachers vote to strike

Four things you shouldn't worry about in higher education policy

Wellings to leave UK for Australian post

A crisis in international education in Australia

Universities call for "fine-tuning" of student visas based on enrolling institution

'Brain Reclaim' as talent returns to Asia from West

Chill goodbye to our Indian summers

Australia’s watchdog warns of US-style ‘long tail’ of bad institutions

Australia launches Hindi website for Indian students

The Hindi version of 'Study Melbourne' portal - http://www.studymelbourne.vic.gov.au/hindi - was....

Overseas student numbers dwindle

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

West meets East with new Asian campuses

Bigger Private-Sector Role Recommended for Middle East

Bribery charges laid over language tests

The trouble with homes away from home

Perak To See Another Private Higher Learning Institution

Following the lead of US universities

Australian education industry witnesses drop in foreign students

Combined international education agency to boost (NZ) sector

Overseas student intake falls

Three plead guilty in uni bribe scandal

Australian students in the dark as Asia's century dawns

Soft marking net may be cast wider

'It's like we are a different class of people here'

''It's like we are a different class of people here,'' she says....

939 Filipinos receive Australian scholarships

The show MUST go on

China & Hong Kong: Thorny issues of higher education ties

Singapore-Yale tie-up to proceed despite controversy

University World News

Doubts over student qualifications

Immigration group slams overstayer ruling

Australian and New Zealand Higher education resources: ACUMA Incorporated

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