student internationale

decades ago, international students, exchange students from China were always the best and brightest the country had to offer. Without your proven academic success, there was no way for you to be accepted into a foreign university.

Sure, academic results are not definitive indicators for your intelligence as a whole, but even so...how times have changed.

I have met many international students who are very bright, very cosmopolitan and very open to new ideas. Unfortunately, these students are a very small minority.

The motivation for many Chinese international students do not come from within themselves, but came as an ill concieved contingency plan for failing academically in their own countries.
The irony of it all is that if they fail academically in an enviroment where academic results is everything, where you are forced to study...how would you succeed with no one to control you?

Given the situation in Australia, we love these international students, they come here, make up a large portion of intakes for most universities, often pay more than twice the fees local student do.

Is it ethical to be benefiting like this?

Universities often lower their english language skill requirements to increase international intake, again, is this ethical when even students who achieve 7 on their IELTS test sometimes have trouble linguistic problems at school and at work.