Australia: Welcome to nation of university ghettos

by E Wayne Ross on July 23, 2008

The Canberra Times: Welcome to nation of university ghettos

A WIDENING gulf between local and foreign university students is creating segregated classes, cultural cliques and religious ghettos, raising fears of a backlash on campuses.

International education is a $12.5 billion industry, and foreign students’ fees account for an average 15 per cent of universities’ overall funding, but a higher education experts warns of “informal but real segregation”.