International Student Security

International Student Security is about opportunity, difficulty, danger and courage in the global student market.

Simon Marginson (Author), Chris Nyland (Author), Erlenawati Sawir (Author), Helen Forbes-Mewett (Author)

9780521138055, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 10 May 2010

530 pages
27.9 x 21.6 x 2.7 cm, 1.22 kg

'This book covers the whole broad dimension of international student security … It is likely to appear as a key text in academic programmes throughout the world and its theoretical innovation and empirical findings will be extremely useful.' Rajani Naidoo, Director of Studies, Doctor of Business Administration in Higher Education Management, University of Bath

More than three million students globally are on the move each year, crossing borders for their tertiary education. Many travel from Asia and Africa to English speaking countries, led by the United States, including the UK, Australia and New Zealand where students pay tuition fees at commercial rates and prop up an education export sector that has become lucrative for the provider nations. But the 'no frills' commercial form of tertiary education, designed to minimise costs and maximise revenues, leaves many international students inadequately protected and less than satisfied. International Student Security draws on a close study of international students in Australia, and exposes opportunity, difficulty, danger and courage on a massive scale in the global student market. It works through many unresolved issues confronting students and their families, including personal safety, language proficiency, finances, sub-standard housing, loneliness and racism.

Preface
Part I. Students in the Global Market: 1. Introduction
2. The setting: Australia
3. The global student market
4. Student security and regulation
Part II. Security in the Formal and Public Domain: 5. Finances
6. Work
7. Housing
8. Health
9. Safety of the person
10. The immigration department
Part III. Security in the Informal and Private Domain: 11. The university
12. Language
13. Friends and family
14. Loneliness
15. Intercultural relations
Part IV. Empowerment and Protection: 16. Conclusion.

Subject Areas: Higher & further education, tertiary education [JNM], Organization & management of education [JNK], Crime & criminology [JKV]