UK-SECURITY 2LST

UK-SECURITY 2LST
"Market research shows that national reputation is the
chief factor in international student choice, bigger than
educational quality.

So the Australian Government spins the national
reputation, and waits for Nitin Garg to be forgotten. This is
not working. The problem of student security will not go away
and will continue to affect choices in the education market."
He said in his speech: "Overall, I suspect the
position of non-white international students is better in
Melbourne than it is in most parts of the USA and the UK,
where racism is broader and deeper, though the UK Government
is smarter in its handling of student safety and crime."
Professor Marginson told the forum that international
students were at risk "because they are strangers, because
legal protections and policy obligations are sparse, and
because there is no political mechanism for translating
concerns about their welfare into action."
He called for a cross-border agency to support
international students on physical safety, financial, work,
housing and welfare issues, offering, if needed, "a point of
appeal and of resolution against states."
This would set a precedent for the treatment of other
"mobile populations" he added. "We want all our lives to have
meaning," Professor Marginson said.
"If Nitin Garg’s death helps to focus world attention
on the problems of mobile persons, the gaps in their human
security and the need for a workable global regime of human
security, his life has achieved a greater meaning. Give him
that honour. That way, he still lives." PTI PS
RBT



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