On the 17 October, the Council of International Students Australia hosted a State forum in our South Bank campus. Many international student leaders and advocates joined to learn more about employability and work exploitation.
One of the relevant topics involved knowing your rights at work. The Fair Work Ombudsman website offers a wide variety of tools and information about your work rights, payments, and even it leads you to an app you can download.
The English Higher Education Language Program (“EnglishHELP”) offers consultations and workshops to HDR students whose first language is not English.
The postgraduate students community at Griffith University is pleased that Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk has promised to set aside $10.9 million for a safety education program following the murder of French student Sophie Collombet near the William Jolly Bridge on March 28.
Message from the Council of International Students Australia (CISA)
A new personal safety campaign targeting international students will begin screening in a Brisbane cinema complex, months after two high-profile killings of foreign students.
Stephen Fanjaya is an international student from Indonesia, who has been living in Sydney for the past three years. In that time he has held about 15 different jobs, changing frequently due to underpayment.
Higher education experts are mixed in their responses to the federal government’s 2014 budget handed down by Treasurer Joe Hockey tonight.
The deaths of two international students in Brisbane’s CBD fringe has spurred one inner north resident’s call for safer streets.
Brisbane resident Natasha Lewis Honeyman has launched a petition to Queensland Parliament to call for a comprehensive safety review in the wake of the murder of our fellow postgraduate student Sophie Collombet.
GUPSA is holding a film night for international postgraduates and friends, from 5pm Thursday 17 October at Nathan campus in N16 0.10. We’ll be showing the classic Australian film from 1994, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
