Mad Uni students bully the education business : Melbourne Indymedia

In Australia University business employees are the targets of bullying from angry overseas students who have failed Australian exams and assignments, a union says.

The National Tertiary Education Union say violence threats, standover tactics, emotional blackmail and emails are current forms of education customer bullying. But some teachers have been stalked and forced to take out apprehended violence orders, the union told Fairfax newspapers.

Union policy and research officer Andrew Nette said a rise in staff bullying reflected the mounting pressures on pay-for-service students. "We are treating students increasingly like customers and they are acting increasingly like customers, and when a customer pays for something they expect to get it," Mr Nette said.

A Sydney University worker, who declined to be named, said she would not have one-on-one meetings with some overseas students who were disputing results they pay cash for.

"Students can become very aggressive and disgruntled about their poor results," she said.

The notion that you can actually fail something you have paid money for has become anathema. It is an obvious cultural problem for some overseas student to accept tough & fair Australian education standards, even when they are not even able to master English in writing and speech. It's very high stakes and some students should never have been accepted or allowed to continue, but the University is happy to take their cash for as long as they can pay.

The financial pressures are great on everyone in the edu-business. If student fail a course and have to redo it they can be up for several thousands more and they may not be able to progress to the next level, unless they find more cash to hand over.

For Chinese students from Malaysia and mainland-China this may prove a difficult financial burden. However, Muslim student of non-Chinese race from Malaysia are more blessed by the openly racist Malaysian government that generously pays all the fees for their many Muslims students living in Australia. Non-Muslims, non-Boomiputras are always excluded, but they must of course pay for these majority “Boomi” apartheid privileges via the Malaysian tax-bill. The majority Malaysians ie. The indigenous Boomiputtras regard this as a necessary affirmative action against the minority, and not as state-sponsored racist privileges.

But the sorry fact is that a student dressed in Muslim garb at a Australian University seldom is out of his/her own pocket for good academic education
Not since the German folk-majority oppression of the small Jewish minority have state-sponsored exploitation by a national MAJORITY of a small ethnic minority happened on such a great unashamed scale.