Show 12/9

Pete and Teishan jump on the mics again, giving a schorching roundup of the latest education news. Including fresh claims of international stutends being rorted by Australian private education providers [The Australian], and calls by the Federation of Indian Students of Australia (FISA) for the federal and state governments to take seriously the rorting of students as wells as the racist attacks [Press Trust of India].

Next up, since Friday marked the anniversary of the September 11 2001 terrorists attacks in the US, we take a look at some of the ramifications the war on terror has had so far on higher education. These include the increasing monitoring and control of students (and academics) from both without (government security agencies) and, more disturbingly, from within the university itself. E.g.: Books on terrorism banned from Melbourne University; A Monash student interrogated for studying terrorism course and hiring terrorism related materials for scholarship; research on terrorism hindered due to anti-terror laws; student protestors raided by terrorism squads. Moreover, UK and US professors asked to monitor students’ activities; universities passing private information including library records to police; biometric and information profiling of international students in the US. Whislt we hear less about this in the news now that the Howard/Bush/Blair years are over, the laws that allow this to happen remain and, alarmingly, these activities have been normalised and are increasly accepted in colleges and universities.

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