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Quality in accounting education and low English standards among overseas students : is there a link?
Two studies of stakeholders in university education for accounting professionals in Australia provide evidence of a decline in the quality of accounting education as perceived by accounting academics. This decline may be linked to increasing enrolments of international students with poor English language skills. Some university lecturers indicate that the quality of students entering their courses has declined, as has the quality of those graduating. In an environment increasingly dominated by the need to publish or perish, assessment tasks such as essays, case studies, and research reports, designed to improve the English language and communications skills of graduates, may have been compromised. This may contribute to the fact that many employers of graduates are concerned about the low levels of English language and communication skills displayed by accounting graduates, particularly international students.
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People and placeVolume
15Issue
1Pagination
22 - 29Publisher
Monash University, Centre for Population and Urban ResearchLocation
Clayton, Vic.ISSN
1039-4788Language
engPublication classification
C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2007, Monash University, Centre for Population and Urban ResearchUsage metrics
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