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Birds in Tasmania Chinese Doss House Universities accused of milking foreign students There are concerns universities were enrolling students with poor English who then receive scant language help. Picture: Renee Nowytarger. Source: The Daily Telegraph AUSTRALIA's university sector faces fresh complaints that it treats international students as "cash cows" after Victoria's Ombudsman warned that universities appear too focused on fee-revenue. A report tabled in Victoria's parliament yesterday cited concerns universities were enrolling fee-paying students with poor English skills who then receive insufficient language support. It also warned that bribery, including an instance where a female student offered an academic sexual favours after failing a subject, may be a bigger problem than the sector accepts. It reported academics complaining that they come under pressure to drop standards to pass struggling international students. But universities complained the report was unrepresentative, with its evidence based on just 62 interviews.

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