International Student Security

Informationen zum Autor Simon Marginson is a Professor of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Chris Nyland is Professor of International Business in the Department of Management at Monash University, Australia. Erlenawati Sawir is a Research Fellow at Central Queensland University, Australia. Helen Forbes-Mewett is a Research Fellow in the Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash University, Australia. Klappentext International Student Security is about opportunity, difficulty, danger and courage in the global student market. Zusammenfassung International Student Security exposes opportunity! difficulty! danger and courage on a massive scale in the global student market. It works through many unresolved issues confronting students and their families! including personal safety! language proficiency! finances! sub-standard housing and issues of loneliness! racism and segregation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Part I. Students in the Global Market: 1. Introduction; 2. The setting: Australia; 3. The global student market; 4. Student security and regulation; Part II. Security in the Formal and Public Domain: 5. Finances; 6. Work; 7. Housing; 8. Health; 9. Safety of the person; 10. The immigration department; Part III. Security in the Informal and Private Domain: 11. The university; 12. Language; 13. Friends and family; 14. Loneliness; 15. Intercultural relations; Part IV. Empowerment and Protection: 16. Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Forbes-Mewett Helen, Simon Marginson, Simon Nyland Marginson, Chris Nyland, Erlenawati Sawir
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.05.2010
• EAN: 9780521138055
• ISBN: 978-0-521-13805-5
• No. of pages: 530
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / History, Organization & management of education, Philosophy and theory of education, Crime & criminology, Higher & further education, tertiary education