Marginson: Cultural divide between students

(Wednesday 23 July 2008)

Professor Simon Marginson, of Melbourne University's Centre for Higher Education, has told of an increasing division between local and international university students on Australian university campuses.

Professor Marginson said that local students were not as active in student life as their international counterparts.

"So you've got this odd situation with the local students half disengaged in a way I've never really seen before," he said.

"The international-student industry runs off the back of a reasonably strong local system which presumes a healthy relationship with the local students … all of that has become the marketing pitch. That's the flashpoint that worries me more than any other - that it could spring back into resentment."

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