Research Presentations

An Agenda for Change

Associate Professor Christine Daymon and Dr Lindy Norris
Murdoch University

Presented to ANZCA Conference, Fremantle, Australia (June 2013)

Recent years have seen increasing educational ties between China and Australia. Australian government statistics report that 40.6% of international students studying at tertiary level in May 2012 came from China. This situation has prompted many Australian and Chinese universities, including Schools of Media and Communication, to actively seek to develop mutually advantageous partnering opportunities within the globalised education market.

Within this context, however, a major challenge for institutions is the provision of support for students who are studying in Australia, remote from the familiarity of home linguistic, cultural and educational environments. Although most international students struggle to varying degrees to adjust to the different educational and intercultural expectations and practices of Australian universities, research suggests that Chinese postgraduate students in particular face distinct challenges, as do the academics who teach them.

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