February 9, 2007
Australian Study Cites Low English Standards
A third of all foreign students who studied at Australian universities speak English so poorly that they should never have been granted visas to study in the country in the first place, says a scathing report published last week.
The study, by Robert Birrell, director of the Centre for Population and Urban Research, at Australia's Monash University, appears in the latest issue of the center's demography journal, People and Place.
Mr. Birrell's 12-page report, "Implications of
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