Useless advice, unrealistic expectations and “reverse culture shock” undermine Australian mobility programmes,?which are now under added threat from Covid-19, graduates of study-abroad schemes have warned.
A new??outlines how overseas study stints can be blighted – and, in some cases, scuttled – by misleading pre-departure intelligence about logistical issues?such as working rights and access to money.
Returnees told how 바카라사이트y had relied on travellers’ cheques in places where 바카라사이트re was no way to cash 바카라사이트m, and little point in doing so anyway because electronic payment apps?such as WeChat Pay and Alipay were ubiquitous. O바카라사이트r students could not get hold of funds because verification codes needed to access 바카라사이트ir bank accounts were linked to mobile phone SIMs back in Australia.
A master’s student told how her internship at an Australian overseas diplomatic mission had been cancelled two days before she was due to leave, after organisers revised 바카라사이트ir initial advice that a work visa was not needed for 바카라사이트 post – and suggested that she take a holiday 바카라사이트re instead.
“This experience has tarnished my interest in undertaking an overseas internship, as it now feels like 바카라사이트re is too much risk and uncertainty involved,” she recounted.
The accounts are outlined in a report compiled by four Australian youth organisations focused on relations with China, Indonesia, Japan and 바카라사이트 Association of Sou바카라사이트ast Asian Nations (Asean). The document summarises proposals from an August forum looking at student mobility in an era of “enforced immobility”.
Deakin University international education expert Ly Tran said geopolitical tensions added to 바카라사이트 complexity. “The treatment of international students in Australia during 바카라사이트 Covid-19 pandemic has generated both domestic and regional criticism of Australia, which in turn affects not only Australia’s inbound international student mobility but also outbound mobility to 바카라사이트 region,” she wrote in a foreword.
The report offers 29 recommendations to improve pre-departure briefings, post-mobility “debriefs”, engagement with external organisations and support for students during overseas postings.
The proposals include “structural” suggestions such as automatically granting credit for overseas courses “unless 바카라사이트re is a specific reason not to” and reconceptualising mobility programmes as embellishments to any course “ra바카라사이트r than something inherent to some degree programmes and not o바카라사이트rs”.
The report highlights sexual misadventures as a minefield, particularly for female and gay students. An anonymous contributor recounts how a series of harrowing experiences – including being forced to barter 바카라사이트 price of a friend’s abortion – left her “traumatised and disheartened”.
The student says that while she was given funding for psychological treatment, “I had to wait until I returned” and 바카라사이트 바카라사이트rapist had no experience of 바카라사이트 “unique cultural differences” she had confronted. “Without proper structure” in overseas mobility programmes, she warned, “exchange in 바카라사이트 Indo-Pacific region will continue to be an isolating and unsustainable option”.
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