Whew!
All of my wonderful students are heading out to West Sydney in July!
That was close!
Hopefully we can persuade the admin at my Uni to send their students to a more...um....valid.....(I'm trying to be PC here!) market than the one in Oz.
Why do they go to Oz? Because the IELTS acceptance scores are lower!!! Well, Dah!!
What the heck is wrong with CANADIAN Universities??
(and please, we're not getting into a discussion of the innumerable repeats of the Bar Admission Course in Upper Canada!)........
Lots of Uni's here are affiliated with Canadian Uni's...........so why can't our students make the 6.5?
Why are we so desperate to send them "wherever/whatever"??
Sending students to financially covert operations IS against all that we, as teachers, believe in............isn't it???
Melbourne is WAY off my radar right now for potential students - mind you - Oz was always suspect anyways - given the quality for higher education in Canada and the UK.
It just SUCKS that the money-grubbers are exploiting the system and the fallibility/innocence of a nation so hungry for knowledge.
Maybe China needs to reassess its attitude to "what IS the limit?" !!!
I, for one, know that MY students are worth SO much more.
And, FWIW...........they, and their families work damned hard for it. More than we ever would want to know.
Exploitation has many faces...........maybe China has yet to learn this.
Experience is a tough mistress.
Peace,
synthette