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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，在当初就不应让他们入学。过去十年里，联邦政府的付费国际留学生政策导致澳洲大学的水准崩溃。
报告指出，去年从澳洲的大学毕业并获得永久居留权的国际留学生中有34％英语成绩不过关；其中，中国留学生的数字是43.2％，韩国和泰国留学生的数字是超过50％。
Unis open to students who fail English
January 29, 2007
MORE than a third of overseas students are completing their degrees at Australian universities with English so poor that they should not have been admitted to tertiary study in the first place.
The results of a study by the demographer Bob Birrell confirm widespread concerns expressed by academics over the past decade that the Federal Government's focus on drawing fee-paying students from overseas has led to a collapse in university academic standards.
They have complained about the way fee-paying students - who now number 239,000, and who contribute 15 per cent of tertiary income - have brought pressure on universities to ensure pass levels, and an epidemic of plagiarism among some groups of foreign students.
The study showed that 34 per cent of graduating students who were offered permanent residence visas last year were unable to achieve a "competent" English standard in their test scores.
Among Chinese students, who are driving much of the growth in export education, the figure was as high as 43.2 per cent.
More than half of South Korean and Thai students could not meet required English levels.
"It does raise serious questions about Australian university standards," said Professor Birrell, a Monash University academic and author of the report, published in today's People and Place journal. "How do they get in in the first place? The next [question] is, how do they get through university exams with poor English?"
The Department of Immigration will only issue higher education visas to students who reach band six - a "competent" standard - in the International English Language Testing System.
But other types of visas only require students to reach band five. Many students arrive on these visas and use them as a back door to universities.
"We've got mountains of anecdotal data from individual lecturers complaining and people expressing concern [about standards], but this is the first time that confirms those concerns are correct," Professor Birrell said. Professor Peter Abelson, a visiting scholar at the University of Sydney, said universities often turned a blind eye to plagiarism and ineptitude among international students because they relied on their income.
"[These figures] are a very stunning result, but not entirely surprising to people who are in tertiary education," he said.
Students with poor English were able to pass through university because so much of their assessment work was not done under examination conditions, he said.
But universities said the data did not necessarily prove standards were softening.
Professor Gerard Sutton, the president of the Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee, said it was possible the foreign students who had failed to reach a score of six on the International English Language Testing System had scored poorly in the speaking component of the test, which may not have been a critical skill in the course they were taking.
"I don't accept that there's a problem in universities in terms of soft marking of international students," Professor Sutton said.
Professor Birrell said the results were an indictment on the professional associations that accredited students and allowed them to proceed with residency visas.
The report said the Australian Nursing Council would not accredit graduates unless they scored seven in the language test.
Dennis Furini, the chief executive of the Australian Computer Society, said his members had not complained about English standards. "In IT, it's more important to know the programming language than the English language."
http://www.smh.com.au/news/natio ... /1169919213284.html
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