Parents like Tracy Ni are increasingly bringing their school-going children to Australia during their summer holidays. If you presume it is for feeding kangaroos, cuddling koalas and sprawling on Australia's famed beaches, you are wrong.
Many Chinese parents find short-term Australian schooling has multiple benefits for their children.It’s school holiday time in China. From July to August, students take a two-month break to travel or just relax at home.Only that he was going there to start school again.
Mason Liu enrolled as a Year One student at Camelot Rise Primary School in Glen Waverley, Melbourne, in July.Ms Ni says the school her son attends has welcomed about 30 such international students this term, almost all from China. The top three source countries of such enrolments in New South Wales are China , the Philippines and India .
This six-week trip to Australia has set Ms Ni back by nearly $20,000, including airfare, house rent, car hire and tuition fees of around $300 per week.My son experienced a different culture and style of teaching, and that was the biggest reward for me.On the same day as Mason’s first day of school in Australia, another Chinese girl from an international school in Shanghai, Yvonne Xu, also began a four-week program as a temporary Year One student in Melbourne.
"We were thinking of sending her to the UK for high school, but now we might consider coming to Australia as it is very liveable for seniors as well," she says. In a response to SBS Chinese, the NSW Department of Education states that the benefits of enrolling visitor visaholder students in Australia include exposing local students to international perspectives, developing students’ intercultural understanding, communication and global citizenship, as well as enhancing interest in and understanding of global issues.
"For schools that can accommodate additional students, they would welcome us bringing in some cross-cultural programmes, which is important in the Victorian curriculum," says she.Overcrowding already stretched resources?
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