The week before there was a report on International students which was aired by Four Corners. Four Corners is a news program in Australia which talks about issues in Australia. We explain.
On Four Corners it talked about the dodgy agents in China and other parts of the world where they help students to falsify English language tests among other things. Four Corners tried three of them. One of them was Shinyway which ANU is investigating.
The report focused on the nursing side of things where a failed graduate could kill a patient by giving them the wrong medicine. It focused on Sydney's hospitals where one Indian student who had really bad English gave somebody dish washing detergent and they died.
The lecturers are annoyed at having to pass students when they should have failed. About 50% of them are plagiarising assignments either by cut and pasting text from sources or by getting a ghost writer to write their essays. One University of Sydney casual lecturer said that the University of Sydney don't investigate it thoroughly. Another one of the lecturers from ACU argued with seven other colleagues that this student should have failed when the higher ups ask for a pass mark.
The education agents in China are dodgy and RMIT has 50% of International students. But RMIT is a good university for their students. One of the Education Agents is Skyways where they forged students IELTS grades to a 7 just to get into uni. What students don't know and is true is that the Education Agents are paid up to 50% of the commission for the universities just to get students to them.
But CISA and IEAA digress saying that they didn't like what Four corners was saying and that it only represents a small amount of students. We say that a huge part of this is true.
What do you think about this issue? Have your say here.
On Four Corners it talked about the dodgy agents in China and other parts of the world where they help students to falsify English language tests among other things. Four Corners tried three of them. One of them was Shinyway which ANU is investigating.
The report focused on the nursing side of things where a failed graduate could kill a patient by giving them the wrong medicine. It focused on Sydney's hospitals where one Indian student who had really bad English gave somebody dish washing detergent and they died.
The lecturers are annoyed at having to pass students when they should have failed. About 50% of them are plagiarising assignments either by cut and pasting text from sources or by getting a ghost writer to write their essays. One University of Sydney casual lecturer said that the University of Sydney don't investigate it thoroughly. Another one of the lecturers from ACU argued with seven other colleagues that this student should have failed when the higher ups ask for a pass mark.
The education agents in China are dodgy and RMIT has 50% of International students. But RMIT is a good university for their students. One of the Education Agents is Skyways where they forged students IELTS grades to a 7 just to get into uni. What students don't know and is true is that the Education Agents are paid up to 50% of the commission for the universities just to get students to them.
But CISA and IEAA digress saying that they didn't like what Four corners was saying and that it only represents a small amount of students. We say that a huge part of this is true.
What do you think about this issue? Have your say here.
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