International exchanges are important for Australian universities because they benefit students, academic staff and the curriculum.
Speaking on a visit to China, Professor Kerry Cox, vice chancellor of Edith Cowan University in Western Australia, emphasised the value of international exchanges and collaboration.
Professor Kerry Cox says exchanges benefit students, academic staff and curriculum
He visited Shaanxi University (SNNU) and met with university president Professor Cheng Guangxu to discuss the progress of education cooperation between SNNU and ECU.
A fourth group of ECU students, this time from the Faculty of Business and Law, will undertake short term studies at SNNU later this month. SNNU is also due to send a group of students to ECU later this year.
ECU's partnership with SNNU has broadened from student and staff exchanges to the joint supervision of PhD students.
Professor Cox also met Madam Xie Shaohua, the vice chair of the board of Guangdong Baiyun University (GBU) and university president Zeng Xiaobin.
Both Professor Cox and Madam Xie have been working closely to internationalise education in both universities.
Professor Cox also met with over 40 GBU students studying accounting and international business who plan to study at ECU in coming years.
He gave a speech providing his advice on how to maximise the learning outcome of study in ECU and emphasised the importance that ECU has attached to cooperative student mobility programmes, particularly for ECU students, to learn cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary skills as part of the academic curriculum.
Meanwhile, Australia's High Court has ruled that Immigration Minister Scott Morrison can't impose a limit on how many refugee protection visas he can issue.
In March he signed a legal instrument saying a maximum of 2,773 protection visas could be granted in the year to June 30 and once this figure had been reached, no new protection visas could be granted.
Asylum seekers who fell outside that quota would be granted temporary safe haven visas but their primary applications would remain undetermined.
The limit was reached on March 24. But now High Court judges have unanimously upheld challenges by a pair of asylum seekers who were determined by the Refugee Review Tribunal to be entitled to refugee protection. At this juncture, neither has been either granted or refused a protection visa.
Speaking on a visit to China, Professor Kerry Cox, vice chancellor of Edith Cowan University in Western Australia, emphasised the value of international exchanges and collaboration.
Professor Kerry Cox says exchanges benefit students, academic staff and curriculum
He visited Shaanxi University (SNNU) and met with university president Professor Cheng Guangxu to discuss the progress of education cooperation between SNNU and ECU.
A fourth group of ECU students, this time from the Faculty of Business and Law, will undertake short term studies at SNNU later this month. SNNU is also due to send a group of students to ECU later this year.
ECU's partnership with SNNU has broadened from student and staff exchanges to the joint supervision of PhD students.
Professor Cox also met Madam Xie Shaohua, the vice chair of the board of Guangdong Baiyun University (GBU) and university president Zeng Xiaobin.
Both Professor Cox and Madam Xie have been working closely to internationalise education in both universities.
Professor Cox also met with over 40 GBU students studying accounting and international business who plan to study at ECU in coming years.
He gave a speech providing his advice on how to maximise the learning outcome of study in ECU and emphasised the importance that ECU has attached to cooperative student mobility programmes, particularly for ECU students, to learn cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary skills as part of the academic curriculum.
Meanwhile, Australia's High Court has ruled that Immigration Minister Scott Morrison can't impose a limit on how many refugee protection visas he can issue.
In March he signed a legal instrument saying a maximum of 2,773 protection visas could be granted in the year to June 30 and once this figure had been reached, no new protection visas could be granted.
Asylum seekers who fell outside that quota would be granted temporary safe haven visas but their primary applications would remain undetermined.
The limit was reached on March 24. But now High Court judges have unanimously upheld challenges by a pair of asylum seekers who were determined by the Refugee Review Tribunal to be entitled to refugee protection. At this juncture, neither has been either granted or refused a protection visa.
