Comments on: ‘Exploitation’ of foreign students http://culturematters.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/exploitation-of-foreign-students/ Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:11:25 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Shepherd http://culturematters.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/exploitation-of-foreign-students/#comment-4263 Shepherd Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:21:31 +0000 http://culturematters.wordpress.com/?p=293#comment-4263 There is more to say about exploitation of foreign students in Australia. The government is also on the party. AUD 450.- for a student visa is clearly a ripp-off. In order not to get into conflict which international watchbodies, they call it non-refundable application fee. In Nigeria, they call it paragraph 419 of the criminal code : Advance fee fraud. The visitor visa fee which had to be scrapped under pressure of the EU and US is now called visitor visa processing fee (AUD20.-), collected by an "outsourced" IT company. International students pay higher tuition fees than Australians. They have no concessions/discounts on transportation and all other services. Doctors charge rediculous fees i.e. AUD 180.- for a 5 min. visit trying to sell a AUD 600.- acne treatment program. She did not honor OSHC insurance. The same is true if you buy medication from a pharmacy. No OSHC, only cash. Now let's get to rental. AUD 120.-/week for a 10sqm room, that is AUD 520.-/month for just a small room! Internet is an extra AUD25.- to 40.-/month, limited to 5GB with a min. penalty of AUD10.- for each extra GB odd. A popular practice of landlords is to provide a wireless Internet network to a bunch of students and collect $40 from each of them. If they have 20 paying students at their hotspot, they make $760.- profit plus free Internet access. Someone said: Don't forget, that Australiens are convicts in the 4th generation but the criminal gene will be inherited forever. That is, why the immigration authorities require a character declaration - to make sure that some clean blood comes onboard. Now we hear about the stabbing of an Indian taxi driver and other violences. Meanwhile, despite the 50% overvalued AUD and 20%+ real inflation, universities suck even more tuition fees and turn to smut business practices, i.e. hiding that an IELTS test at the end of a 25 weeks English course has to be paid extra (AUD 280.- for some hours) or mixing Tuition fees for Trimesters and Semesters that they become so unclear, that at the end, they are much higher than calulated. A Bachelor of Arts now costs well above about AUD 80,000.-. For this money, you better study in the USA, UK, Ireland, Canada or New Zealand. How about the Surbonne? You will be surprised. Yes, Australia is over. They definitely crossed the red line. There is more to say about exploitation of foreign students in Australia. The government is also on the party. AUD 450.- for a student visa is clearly a ripp-off. In order not to get into conflict which international watchbodies, they call it non-refundable application fee. In Nigeria, they call it paragraph 419 of the criminal code : Advance fee fraud. The visitor visa fee which had to be scrapped under pressure of the EU and US is now called visitor visa processing fee (AUD20.-), collected by an “outsourced” IT company. International students pay higher tuition fees than Australians. They have no concessions/discounts on transportation and all other services. Doctors charge rediculous fees i.e. AUD 180.- for a 5 min. visit trying to sell a AUD 600.- acne treatment program. She did not honor OSHC insurance. The same is true if you buy medication from a pharmacy. No OSHC, only cash. Now let’s get to rental. AUD 120.-/week for a 10sqm room, that is AUD 520.-/month for just a small room! Internet is an extra AUD25.- to 40.-/month, limited to 5GB with a min. penalty of AUD10.- for each extra GB odd. A popular practice of landlords is to provide a wireless Internet network to a bunch of students and collect $40 from each of them. If they have 20 paying students at their hotspot, they make $760.- profit plus free Internet access. Someone said: Don’t forget, that Australiens are convicts in the 4th generation but the criminal gene will be inherited forever. That is, why the immigration authorities require a character declaration – to make sure that some clean blood comes onboard. Now we hear about the stabbing of an Indian taxi driver and other violences. Meanwhile, despite the 50% overvalued AUD and 20%+ real inflation, universities suck even more tuition fees and turn to smut business practices, i.e. hiding that an IELTS test at the end of a 25 weeks English course has to be paid extra (AUD 280.- for some hours) or mixing Tuition fees for Trimesters and Semesters that they become so unclear, that at the end, they are much higher than calulated. A Bachelor of Arts now costs well above about AUD 80,000.-. For this money, you better study in the USA, UK, Ireland, Canada or New Zealand. How about the Surbonne? You will be surprised. Yes, Australia is over. They definitely crossed the red line.

]]> By: san http://culturematters.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/exploitation-of-foreign-students/#comment-4194 san Sat, 21 Jun 2008 08:27:20 +0000 http://culturematters.wordpress.com/?p=293#comment-4194 They should lift the working restriction from 20 hours to 40, It's very hard for international students to find job. The government is being greedy, they are treating international students as animals, if such thing continues, it's not far that australia will see students on strike, demanding their rights, this could blast the economic of education sector even more crime will be commited in future. In most the the job vacancies they display these words " YOU SHOULD BE PR OF AUSTRALIA" , which is impossible for international students to apply. Well in that case where is EEO???? Lastly Australia is not the right country to study, every international students should know that. Government is getting richer due to international students, let's make them poor and suffer. The australian born students will get allowance, at least we deserve something better life, sometimes i feel myself as going into depression and suicide putting down myself under the train of illawara line. They should lift the working restriction from 20 hours to 40, It’s very hard for international students to find job. The government is being greedy, they are treating international students as animals, if such thing continues, it’s not far that australia will see students on strike, demanding their rights, this could blast the economic of education sector even more crime will be commited in future.

In most the the job vacancies they display these words ” YOU SHOULD BE PR OF AUSTRALIA” , which is impossible for international students to apply. Well in that case where is EEO???? Lastly Australia is not the right country to study, every international students should know that. Government is getting richer due to international students, let’s make them poor and suffer. The australian born students will get allowance, at least we deserve something better life, sometimes i feel myself as going into depression and suicide putting down myself under the train of illawara line.

]]> By: Jovan http://culturematters.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/exploitation-of-foreign-students/#comment-3298 Jovan Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:33:08 +0000 http://culturematters.wordpress.com/?p=293#comment-3298 Indeed. And don't forget the service stations. Where would they be without (predominantly South Asian) foreign students! Indeed. And don’t forget the service stations. Where would they be without (predominantly South Asian) foreign students!

]]> By: Ali Adolf Wu http://culturematters.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/exploitation-of-foreign-students/#comment-3297 Ali Adolf Wu Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:03:25 +0000 http://culturematters.wordpress.com/?p=293#comment-3297 Clearly, the catering industries in Sydney and Melbourne rely on foreign students' labour, pliable and semi-legal (I mean with lots of unreported employment), as much as the Italian fashion industry does on Chinese workshops or German homeowners on Polish plumbers. As I (or maybe it was my colleague the Third Tone Devil) have long said, A Day Without Foreign Students in Sydney would be like A Day Without Mexicans in the US. Neoliberalism as exception, as Aihwa Ong puts it! Clearly, the catering industries in Sydney and Melbourne rely on foreign students’ labour, pliable and semi-legal (I mean with lots of unreported employment), as much as the Italian fashion industry does on Chinese workshops or German homeowners on Polish plumbers. As I (or maybe it was my colleague the Third Tone Devil) have long said, A Day Without Foreign Students in Sydney would be like A Day Without Mexicans in the US. Neoliberalism as exception, as Aihwa Ong puts it!

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