hink of it all - of the life that is! Study your friends and foes!
Study the past! And answer this: "Are these times better than those?" The life-long quarrel, the paltry spite, the sting of your poisoned pride! No matter who fell it were better to fight as they did when the world was wide.
Multiculturalism in Universities failing
"A WIDENING gulf between international and local students has prompted warnings of resentment and a backlash on Australian university campuses, as overseas student numbers continue to grow.[...]
Local students tended to work off campus and were not active in student life, while international students spent most of their time on campus, generally in the library, Professor Simon Marginson, of Melbourne University's Centre for Higher Education, told The Age. "So you've got this odd situation with the local students half disengaged in a way I've never really seen before," he said.
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Professor Marginson said internationalisation of higher education was supposed to enrich universities by helping staff, students and institutions create strong cultural and intellectual links with other countries, as well as bring in much-needed revenue. But it did not appear to be meeting its aim.
Cuts in federal funding have forced universities to seek revenue from other sources, including international students. Meanwhile, growth in domestic students has slowed, while international student numbers have rocketed to 370,000."
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Wow. Here we have a clear and realistic report on the whole business of multiculturalism in our Universities that can be generalized, with a small amount of imagination, to the level of the nation because the same underlying forces are at work on both levels.
We have the university establishment which for purely financial reasons is progressively boosting overseas intake. Despite the rhetoric of 'enrichment' and 'diversity' that is spurted out by the mouthpieces of the establishment, trying to convince everyone that it's in their best interests, this multiculturalism is creating ethnic divisions or enclaves: the natural/organic organization of members of a particular ethnic group around each other. These enclaves are contributing to a lowering of general civic interest in each university campus community, leading increasingly to an environment where people simply rock up, spend the least amount of time there as possible, and then promptly go home.
...Not the healthy and dynamic centre of knowledge, debate and fraternity a university is traditionally perceived to be, hey? We need to stop conveniently ignoring the significance of the genuine differences that seperate people of different ethnicities and seriously examine the negative side effects of the sort of outlook which is concerned simply with quantity and which seeks to accumulate masses of human beings merely for positive bureaucratic/financial results.