Her comment follows alleged attacks from organised networks of international students making coordinated attacks against university staff members whose assignments and examinations proved too difficult to pass. The University of Sydney confirmed it received 135 formal complaints about staff regarding coursework or assessments last year.
She cited a paper published in 2012 which examined whether international students were performing equivalently to domestic students and showed “international students do perform worse on average … than domestic students, and there are negative learning effects in tutorials”. “I also found some evidence of inflation of grades as a consequence of larger fractions of lesser prepared students being enrolled in courses,” Ms Foster told Sky News.
Lazy lefty aussies
English speakers should be permitted to opt out and only work with other fluent English Speakers. English speaking students have no right to demand not to be in a working group with those who do not speak our language and so they have to do the lions share of the work. Not Fair.
They have been lowering standards to court the international market for the past 20 years. All universities and private colleges are guilty of it. I've lectured in several institutions and every academic knows it's true.
Don't you lot have a dead school-girl's voicemail to hack into or something? That's the NewsCorp way, right?
I could have told them that 10 years ago!
Admission requirements: 1. Has pulse? 2. Has big bank balance? Good to go.
She's a professor? Jesus!
oz_jacko Standards are being lowered across the board in the name of equality. Certain groups can't meet the mark so the mark is lowered so that all groups can participate, but this defeats the purpose of the institution in the first place. Look at the police force for another example.
The students dont do it, the UN does it.
You have to operate to the standard n strength of the weakest link ?
In all Western civilised societies for 10 years, the dumbing-down of populations. Not a ConspiracyTheory. Ask yourselves why do 'overseas' students need this? Is it BLM BS? Why should we suffer for dumb-dumbs not used to an advanced country? Kids apologising for privilege? NO
'Reports' turns out there is no report but a single study from 2012. Sounds like Gigi is talking out her arse again.
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