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…

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…

A student nurse in the final stages of her nursing degree has dropped out of her course and is taking her college to the Human Rights Commission. Linda Tang, a 42 years old student at UNITEC, left her course because she said her tutors were making it impossible for her to pass. Tang’s tutors complaint…