Coronavirus concerns for Chinese students considering West

Interest in overseas education is dampened by issues such as cancellations, disease control and discrimination

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April 30, 2020
Last updated
May 8, 2020
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Reader's comments (4)

#1 Submitted by Neil J 1 on April 30, 2020 - 1:54pm
Chinas wet markets have been the source of several epidemics and any one travelling via china and from china need to be examined health wise thoroughly and the intake of students and migrants from china need to be restricted and preferably stopped totally to prevent covid like viruses spreading. All countries should close borders to china and people of all nationalities who travelled to china in the past 6 months to 1 year.
#2 Submitted by baojiu.... on April 30, 2020 - 5:06pm
I am confused. Is this supposed to be a comment from someone working in HE?
#3 Submitted by Neil J 1 on May 5, 2020 - 12:58pm
The confusion BL is only in your mind because you were unable to read the lines and interpret properly - prospective host countries and their people are more worried about china and international students coming via or from china as spreading the virus and the real fear and not xenophobia is the reason that most host countries will close their physical doors to a variety of people depending on which countries have an open and transparent system of reporting covid cases and which countries have successfully reduced covid instance, eg Australia and nz will likely open the border to each other first. Yes the comment is from an HE educator because none of us HE educators are willing to perish hosting international students coming from covid hot spots. You cannot pull the “xenophobia” card for HE educators wanting to stay alive and healthy.
#4 Submitted by Neil J 1 on May 5, 2020 - 1:01pm
i think, more appropriately, host coutries HE educators need to be guaranteed safety from international students from covid hotspots

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