Wesley, Gardner and Overland paint a litany of maladies resulting from structural weaknesses giving rise to an explosion of poorly regulated private providers of vocational education and training (VET).
Between 2007 and last year, enrolments to the VET sector rose 41.3 per cent among the more than half a million international students in Australia. Enrolments to English language intensive courses for overseas students (ELICOS) rose 23.9 per cent.
Wesley and Overland identified conditions giving rise to the vulnerability for which students from India are particularly prone, little of which has to do with race.
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Beyond problems of law and order for Australians and international students, and their implications for perceptions of Australia overseas, educators and policymakers could reflect on the spirit of the Colombo Plan and the goodwill it has engendered in countries such as Malaysia.
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