International and domestic students have similar pass rates at the undergraduate level, but this shouldn’t be our only concern.
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While international students do need baseline proficiency in English, they need support the whole way through their degrees to actually be successful.
Senator Pauline Hanson raised concerns about immigration and social cohesion, saying ‘more than a million people’ in Australia ‘cannot speak English well or at all’. Let’s look at the numbers.
Using purpose-built English language tests for purposes other than what they were created to test reduces the validity of these tests.
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Senior Lecturer, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University
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Professor in the Practice of Higher Education Policy, Australian National University
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Associate Professor & Deputy Direction, UNSW Australian Human Rights Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Distinguished Professor of Applied Linguistics, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor, Migration and Education, Australian National University
