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Posted to The Age (27/8/2019) on 28/8/2019
Commenting on “After five weeks of helping Chinese classmates I fired off a furious email“
https://www.theage.com.au/national/after-five-weeks-of-helping-chinese-classmates-i-fired-off-a-furious-email-20190827-p52l8f.html
The higher education system catering for the international students is a complete rort, and it has not improved since the large wave of Chinese international students landed in the colleges and universities.
Entry to the institutions requires attainment of certain level of English competency, either assessed in Australia or overseas. Unfortunately, money can buy “good results” illegally overseas, and therefore it is of no surprise that these international students cannot produce any readable or sensible submission.
I am glad that I am no longer teaching in the system. I do not have to subject to pressure to pass the students even though they could hardly get pass the starting line. I had many students complaining about their international student team members hardly contributed towards the project, or just put in a few sloppy paragraphs which made no sense.
What can a team member do to get the others to pull their socks up if they are reluctant or refuse to do so?
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Posted to Facebook on 28/8/2019 at 3:12 PM
It is time to call for a Royal Commission to have a close scrutiny of the tertiary education system.
The scope should cover the funding models, the unethical practices of the institutions and private organisations to pass audit, systematic rorting of the entry requirement, endemic plagiarism, organisations bullying staff to relax pass marks, provision of trial test papers almost identical to actual examinations, ways to reassess failed students to enable them to pass, excessive charging of course materials reproduced from photocopiers, slapdash collection of online reading materials, etc.
Thank you for reading.
Entry to the institutions requires attainment of certain level of English competency, either assessed in Australia or overseas. Unfortunately, money can buy “good results” illegally overseas, and therefore it is of no surprise that these international students cannot produce any readable or sensible submission.
I am glad that I am no longer teaching in the system. I do not have to subject to pressure to pass the students even though they could hardly get pass the starting line. I had many students complaining about their international student team members hardly contributed towards the project, or just put in a few sloppy paragraphs which made no sense.
What can a team member do to get the others to pull their socks up if they are reluctant or refuse to do so?
PART 2 OF 2
Posted to Facebook on 28/8/2019 at 3:12 PM
It is time to call for a Royal Commission to have a close scrutiny of the tertiary education system.
The scope should cover the funding models, the unethical practices of the institutions and private organisations to pass audit, systematic rorting of the entry requirement, endemic plagiarism, organisations bullying staff to relax pass marks, provision of trial test papers almost identical to actual examinations, ways to reassess failed students to enable them to pass, excessive charging of course materials reproduced from photocopiers, slapdash collection of online reading materials, etc.
Thank you for reading.
