The adjustment of international students has now become an important issue. The transition of students has been reported as problematic. Many attempts have been made to ameliorate the situation. These range from language programs to skills training.
Students still feel they face many problems in their educational transition to local universities.
This is the question we asked at Curtin Business School, as skills training appeared to give minimal return for effort. It appears these students had some of the prerequisite information and skills, but had difficulty transposing these to fit the local circumstance. Where some new tasks had to be acquired, the underlying rationale was mystifying to them. In this session we will outline the developmental work in progress, discussing the strategies we are adopting and will present both quantitative and qualitative results of our progress to this stage. It is now evident that the business of educating the International Student returns more to the Australian economy than most other exports.