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The Social and Economic Security of International Students: A New Zealand Study
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Sawir, Erlenawati; Marginson, Simon; Nyland, Chris; Ramia, Gaby; Rawlings-Sanaei, Felicity – Higher Education Policy, 2009
International education has generated complex problems of governance. As well as being beneficiaries of educational services and consumers of a product, international students are also migrants, workers and beings with civil rights. Arguably, the regulation of international student security as consumer protection fails to recognize this full range…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Problems, Civil Rights, International Education
The Pastoral Care of International Students in New Zealand: Is It More Than a Consumer Protection Regime?
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Sawir, Erlenawati; Marginson, Simon; Nyland, Chris; Ramia, Gaby; Rawlings-Sanaei, Felicity – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2009
Student security is a composite social practice that includes the domains of consumer rights, entitlement to a range of welfare supports and pastoral care, and freedom from exploitation and discrimination. Three traditions shape the systems used for managing and regulating international student security in the nations that export education:…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Consumer Education, Foreign Countries, Student College Relationship