Academic standards, Internationalisation, and the discursive construction of 'the international student'
- Publisher:
- Elsevier Science
- Publication Type:
- Journal Article
- Citation:
- Devos, A. 2002 'Academic standards, Internationalisation, and the discursive construction of 'the international student'', Higher education research and development, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 15-24.
- Issue Date:
- 2002
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The release in early 2001 of a study of Australian social science academics
perceptions of the impact of commercialisation on academic freedom (Kayrooz, Kinnear &
Preston, 2001) led to sustained public debate over the issue of academic standards and the
internationalisation of higher education in Australia. This debate gave expression to
growing disaffection amongst Australian academics with the pressures for increased commercialisation
and entrepreneurialism in their work. In this paper I use the tools provided
through the work of Michel Foucault to critically examine the terms of the debate as it was
conducted in the public arena. The purpose of this analysis is to explore the ways in which
international students were represented in the discourses of academic standards, and the
conflation of the alleged decline in academic standards with the internationalisation
of higher education, and in particular, with the presence of international students on
Australian campuses.
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