On the front line of Australia’s foreign student surge
Overseas students are in the sights of a government and opposition looking to win votes by promising to alleviate pressure on housing and infrastructure. Who are these political pawns, and what’s it like teaching them?
At first, I put it down to typical foreigner-abroad clannishness: all the Chinese students filing into my feature writing tutorial had probably conspired to enrol in the same 9am Friday group for moral and social support, I mused.
I’d seen it before during 10 years of part-time – or “sessional” – lecturing and tutoring around Sydney’s universities, and indeed during decades of interviewing business professors and other academics at institutions around the world; why would the international cohorts on UNSW’s sprawling Randwick campus be any different?
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Mark Mulligan is the world editor and a former markets and economics writer. He was a Financial Times correspondent. Connect with Mark on Twitter. Email Mark at mark.mulligan@afr.com.au
