Foreign students 'cheating or receiving special treatemt to get degrees?????

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Foreign students 'cheating or receiving special treatemt to get degrees'

• Keith Moor
• From: Herald Sun
• June 10, 2010 12:00AM

FOREIGN students are cheating and getting special treatment to ensure they get their degrees, according to evidence gathered in a secret investigation by the Ombudsman.

Victorian universities chasing a bigger slice of Australia's $17 billion a year foreign students industry have also been accused of pressuring staff to "dumb down" courses.

Some international students who failed tests at RMIT were allowed to keep sitting the same exams until they passed, the Ombudsman's investigators allegedly found.

Do you know of foreign students receiving special treatment? Email us at news@heraldsun.com.au

RMIT's 26,000 international students bring in almost $204 million a year to the university.

An RMIT whistleblower sparked the Ombudsman's investigation early this year. Investigators have found evidence suggesting:

A TEACHER allowed students to cheat in aerospace and aviation exams.

AT LEAST one Middle Eastern student suspected of cheating spent months in a detention centre while intelligence agencies checked his background.

AN international student graduated from RMIT despite turning up drunk, missing lectures, failing exams, abusing staff and students, and sparking sex assault accusations.

The university, and the individuals accused of wrongdoing, will be able to respond to the allegations in the Ombudsman's draft report before the final report was tabled in State Parliament.

RMIT Vice-Chancellor Margaret Gardner said the Whistleblowers Protection Act prevented her from commenting on the allegations until after the report is tabled.

She said she would be happy to answer questions when she was legally able to do so.

An RMIT teacher, who asked not to be named, said some staff were concerned foreign students were getting preferential treatment. "RMIT is falling over backwards to make sure these fee-paying international students don't fail," he said.

"A big slice of RMIT's income is generated by international students and they don't want to jeopardise it."

Leading Monash University researcher Bob Birrell claimed some international students who got degrees didn't have enough English to to get a job in Australia in their chosen fields.

Dr Birrell said he couldn't comment on the Ombudsman's report as he was not aware of its contents.

But he said competition between Victorian universities was so fierce that evidence suggested some were cutting corners as they desperately pursued the lucrative international student dollar.

"In order to deal with the students who were being recruited, they had to dumb down the curriculum," he said.

Investigators from the Ombudsman's office are believed to have discovered the cheating during an investigation into other damaging claims against RMIT.

They found evidence suggesting a long-serving teacher handed out an exam paper to a Middle Eastern aerospace student several days before the exam. The student allegedly allowed other Middle Eastern students to use the exam paper to cheat.

Telephone records of the teacher and several aerospace students allegedly reveal late-night contact in the days before a test on the stress on aeroplane components.

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• Victorian Student Posted at 8:57 AM Today

  At last some exposure of this issue. I can't count how many times foreign students at my university get special attention, and force help from local students. Local students have to continuously complete foreign studentâ?#153;s work in groups, with some of them hardly speaking a word of English, let alone being able to pass an exam! Some subjects now even give you the questions to the exam two weeks before, so students can prepare answers - whereâ?#153;s the learning in that? I canâ?#153;t understand how this keeps happening. Itâ?#153;s ruining Australianâ?#153;s learning experience, and local students are getting sick of the money making antics of universities around Australia. Yes, thereâ?#153;s people getting university degrees, but are we making AUSTRALIANS smarter and better prepared for the future?

• michael of queensland Posted at 8:54 AM Today

  And you think this only just started.It has been goingon for years. It is all about the need for greed by University's of anywhere. There is not one that is squeeky clean.

• Hector of Richmond Posted at 8:52 AM Today

  Welcome to 21st Century Australia where ignorance, incompetence, dishonesty and hypocrisy reign supreme. It trickles down from Rudd.

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