The majority of students from China come to Australia to learn English and be exposed to a different culture. This helps them get a competitive edge over graduates in their home country.
There has been mounting concern over Chinese influence in Australia’s universities.
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The Morrison government is setting up a University Foreign Interference Taskforce, as it grapples with encroachments by China into Australia’s higher education sector.
Expertise on the inner workings of the Chinese Communist Party is spread dangerously thin across Australia.
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The government is asking universities to register the Confucius Institutes they host under the Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme. So, what are these institutes and what do they teach?
There are 1,113 Confucius Classrooms in 146 countries and regions across the world.
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The review of Confucius Classrooms, which promote Chinese language learning, comes amid concerns about foreign influence, soft power and academic freedom.