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NEWS
Students staying longer OUTRAGE

OVER
in the Land of Oz ANTI-CHINESE

GRAFFITI

Racist graffiti and flyers aimed at
By Claudia Civinini
Chinese international students
Last year was the ‘largest ever have caused uproar at three
recorded’ for the ELT industry Australian universities.
in Australia, English Australia The words ‘Kill Chinese’ with a
figures reveal. While student swastika were scribbled in a toilet
numbers have registered just a in the University of Sydney.
modest two per cent growth, Meanwhile, the University
student weeks are increasing, with of Melbourne and Monash
students spending on average one University have been targeted
week longer Down Under than in with flyers and posters saying
2015. that Chinese students shouldn’t
Asia dominates the figures, enter the campus or they will be
representing more than 60 deported.
per cent of all market volume. The vice-president of the
However, other regions showed University of Sydney’s Chinese
a more impressive growth in Students Association, Poppy
student weeks: 28 per cent from Enrolments by region. Source: English Australia Wang, said the university did not
the Americas and 15 per cent react fast enough to the incidents,
from Europe, which recovered And while India slipped from (further education) organisations as it took two days to remove the
after ‘several years of decline’. 8th to 10th position, Italy, the dominate the industry, followed graffiti, the BBC reports.
In terms of source countries, only European country in the top by university language centres. All universities strongly
China holds the pole position 10, climbed from 10th to 9th. The economic impact of the condemned these incidents and
with 22 per cent of the market English language teaching industry was calculated at $2.258 flyers in Melbourne have been
share. centres attached to VET billion, up 8 per cent from 2015. reported to the police.

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