International Student Policy in Australia : The Welfare Dimension / Gaby Ramia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ramia, Gaby, author.

Series:

Public and social policy series.

Public and Social Policy Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Higher education and state--Australia.

Higher education and state.

Students, Foreign--Australia.

Students, Foreign.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 164 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Sydney, NSW : Sydney University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Australia’s higher education sector was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. Student and staff numbers declined, and the government assistance afforded to other sectors was all but missing for universities. In a callous example of abandonment in an hour of need, Australia’s international students were similarly ignored by the federal government. International Student Policy in Australia: The welfare dimension tells the story of how successive governments have chosen a conscious form of what is effectively policy inaction on international student welfare since well before COVID-19. The politics of policy during the pandemic is a significant part of the narrative, but it only tells part of the story. International Student Policy in Australia examines the policies and laws that regulate the lives of international students in Australia. Professor Gaby Ramia examines the political, policy, governance and regulatory contexts within which international student rights and welfare are determined in Australia and interrogates specific thematic areas – including racism, discrimination and violence, health and wellbeing – and the means by which students have dealt with crisis situations over the past 20 years. International Student Policy in Australia: The welfare dimension provides an analysis of international student welfare amid questions of policy action and inaction in the management of multiple crises, within an era of massified international education, drawing implications for policy and legal reform and providing a revised policy agenda for a post-pandemic future"-- Publisher's website.

Contents:

Preface

Introduction. What the pandemic told us

International student policy : a conceptual map

Australia in a global market

Legal regulation

Welfare and policy inaction

Crises in welfare

Conclusion. The past, the present and the future.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781743329887

1743329881

9781743329894

174332989X

OCLC:

1457637745