At SUPRA’s recent symposium Empowering student voices for international education, student leaders from across the country met with industry leaders from the National Student Ombudsman, Welcoming Universities, the Commonwealth Department of Education and International Education Association Australia to discuss how to collectively re-establish the national student voice in international education.
Weihong Liang, SUPRA Education Officer, and CAPA International Student Officer announced the launch of the Council of Australian Postgraduate Association (CAPA)’s National International Student Voice Campaign. Weihong said:
Our key priority is to revive Australia’s mechanisms for listening to students’ voices. We have not had a dedicated national student association actively representing and speaking for international students studying in Australia for at least 3 years, which has meant that while universities, larger student unions and the Australian public discuss the future of international students, nobody hears from us.
At the same time, many media stories and social media posts have misrepresented the reality of life as an international student, and we have not had any organisation focused on correcting the mistakes and giving Australians a true picture of who we are, what we contribute and how to address key issues.
Read CAPA’s full statement on the National International Student Voice Campaign.
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