Thursday, July 22, 2010
Reduce number of overseas students in Australia for better security
It is suggested that the number and type of overseas students going to Australia to be reduced in order to curb the increasing violent attacks on overseas students. The restrictions and curfews are particularly applied due to high crime rates of the incidents. One of the evidences would be charging a 15-year-old by Victorian police with the murder of Indian student Nitin Garg, and a 16-year-old as an accessory. According to this measure, students will be selected on an educational basis. The Australian National University's National Institute of Public Policy claimed that they need better selection, better educational offerings and a better duty of care. However, the options to reduce the attacks are condemned as "offensive" by Australian Council of Private Education and Training chief Andrew Smith. According to his opinion, imposing curfews in a liberal democracy to some people would be offensive. In addition, Monash overseas student security expert Chris Nyland points out that reducing overseas student numbers would have been a good idea if it had bought time to build up the housing and policing infrastructure necessary to reduce attacks. Such a build-up had so far prevented crime against students becoming a crisis in Britain and Western Europe. As a result from this prevention method, the flow of students who are not primarily interested in a quality education would be diminished.
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In my point of view, reducing numbers of overseas students to Australia is not an ideal measure to tackle the problems.
ReplyDeleteThe responsible department should consider strengthening the security system in the country rather than putting the blame on overseas students. For example, this can be done through improving the quality of police forces in the country. Stricter regulations can be carried out by imposing heavier fines and punishments.
I do agree that there would be more quality students getting the permission to fly over to Australia based on the selection suggested. However, decreasing numbers of overseas students does involve opportunity cost as the demand for export sales will drops. This may lead to further negative impacts.
Deep consideration should be taken wisely and seriously!
haha..really economic...agree as well, it is not an ideal idea as this will definitely reduce the inflow of foreign currencies into australia.Indirectly, it affects their economy as Australia is depend heavily on services sectors especially education^^
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