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The Betoota Campus of the University Of Western Queensland has today been praised for it’s unique foreign student program, which is providing subcontinental and Chinese and internationals with a world-renowned program that sees them learning fuck all while hanging out in a room full of people from the same country as them.
“It costs them three times as much as it would an Australian student, but that’s what you have to pay if you want to take part in this rushed and half-hearted education program in obscure off-site campuses” said one UWQ lecturer, professor Jackie Howe.
“Plus they get to study alongside heaps of people from their own country”
“That’s not usually offered to Indian students in India, or Chinese students in China. That’s what they are paying for”
UWQ say they are following the lead of the rest of Australia’s universities and waiving their own English entry standards in a bid to admit more high-paying international students.
It comes as academics have told the ABC’s Four Corners program that they are seeing record numbers of academic misconduct cases and increasing numbers of international students who are struggling.
However, UWQ boardmembers says that it’s all good, and don’t worry about it, because these internationals will be fucking off to their own country’s before you know it. And who cares if they don’t learn anything, look how much money they are bringing into our educational institutions that have effectively been gutted by the Federal Government.
Last night’s ABC academics have shared stories of foreign students using phone apps to translate university lectures and students in postgraduate IT courses who were unsure how to use a computer or a USB drive.
Under changes to streamline the student visa system in 2016, the Federal Government gave universities greater responsibility to determine whether students from some countries were genuine temporary entrants to Australia, and to ensure their English ability was satisfactory.
However, one foreign student, Virat Ansh (19) says he cherishes the opportunity of being able to study alongside his own countrymen and women in a 6 x 10 m classroom on the other side of the world.
“I came here to experience Australian life while I study” he says.
“But instead, I got something much better. The chance to be geographically located in Australia while effectively being surrounded by 20 of the 1.4 billion people that come from the same country as me”
“I got to meet Marcus Stoinis at a BBL match during a weekend trip the Gabba, so this has all been worth it”
