Your Exit Interview – “No More Romanians”

Today we are publishing another reply to our invitation to give us your New Zealand exit interviews. If you are a Romanian national planning to study in or visit New Zealand your may like to read how one Romanian couple was made to feel like criminals before being unceremoniously thrown out of New Zealand by…

Another NZ ‘Change Your Name’ Story

This was in today’s edition of the New Zealand Herald: “A Syrian job applicant was told he should change his name to something more Kiwi because conservative southerners would think twice about working with him. The Syrian, a 22-year-old Auckland-based man with a civil engineering degree, was applying for a graduate position within architectural business…

International Students as Customers

Earlier today I blogged about Linda Tang’s problem with UNITEC not apologising for the way she’d been treated and thought it would be good to look into the problems and expectations that international students have whilst studying in New Zealand, specifically at UNITEC. I’ve dug up a document released in 2004 by the Higher Education…

Racial Discrimination Case Cover Up

Today’s NZ Herald is reporting that Linda Tang, the Chinese nursing student who was allegedly forced out of the final year of her Unitec degree course because her tutors had issues with her accent, has been offered money in exchange for her silence. According to Lincon Tan’s article: “The Faculty of social health sciences executive…