为获PR会计专业留学生泛滥英语水平差再引关注

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Cooking is all about PR … Nepalese students studying at a Sydney hospitality college say it is a way of gaining a permanent residency visa.




今年一月底，墨尔本Monash大学的一项研究报告显示，超过三分之一正在澳洲高等院校完成学位的海外留学生英语水平太差，无法胜任未来的工作。这则新闻在澳洲国内外都引起很大的反响。

上周，本地各大英文媒体又大幅报道一些私立专科学校已变成“制造PR的工厂”，指一些国际留学生为搭上获取永久居留权PR的直通车而转读烹饪理发等专业。

4月4日，《澳洲人报》又报道，为了获取PR而就读会计专业的留学生数量大幅增加，造成大学课堂规模越加庞大，教职员工日益短缺，从而使澳洲的会计教育质量下降，毕业后无法胜任实际工作，已经引起越来越多本地雇主和公司的担忧。

一些会计师事务所甚至宁愿雇佣非会计专业海外留学毕业生，对他们进行专业培训后再予以使用。著名会计师公司普华永道（PricewaterhouseCoopers）最近就聘请了一名28岁的经济系毕业生Natalie Dixon-Flint。

有关研究人员表示，由于会计专业被澳洲移民部列入紧缺技术行业，会计专业毕业生可以在技术移民评估时获得额外的加分，因此，许多海外留学生显然更加关心这个专业学位是否能帮助他们移民，而不是对会计这一专业工作感兴趣。





Call to account as English slides



April 04, 2007    Artical from: The Australian


THE rise of foreign students hoping to win permanent residency with an accounting degree has compromised academic standards and worried employers.

In some cases, accounting firms are now looking for non-accounting graduates, with a view to training them in the profession.

At PricewaterhouseCoopers, Natalie Dixon-Flint, 28, an economics graduate, has begun the process that will convert her into an accountant. Graduates like her are valued for their communication and problem-solving skills, and big firms are happy for the technical accounting skills to come later.

Researcher Kim Watty suggests in the latest People and Place magazine that the rise of foreign students is an issue in the industry.

Dr Watty, from RMIT University in Melbourne, said most accounting academics she had surveyed believed that the quality of education had declined. They blamed bigger classes, staff cuts and rising enrolments of overseas students. "Many international students ... appear more concerned with the benefits that derive from the degree for permanent-residency status than about working in the accounting profession," she writes.

These graduates get more points towards residency because accounting is classed as a skill in demand.

Demographer Bob Birrell says that about a third of overseas students who had graduated in Australia and won residency lacked the English proficiency to work as professionals.


http://www.theaustralian.news.co ... 341-5001561,00.html

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今年7月1号以后澳洲的移民政策是不是真的会有所调整呢？

http://www.oursteps.com.au/bbs/v ... page%3D1&page=2