Send Press Releases, Events & Responses to:
editor@nrinewstimes.com
|
| June 27, 2009 | | Guide offers advice for Indian students in Australia | | An international student in Australia, Danny Ong, has written a guide for Indian students as well as for other international students in the country, which will offer essential advice to them regarding house-hunting, public transport, the justice system and the concept of human rights in Australia.
The guide titled ‘International Student Handbook: Living and Studying in Australia’
will be published in August. Danny Ong wrote the guide following a disappointing
job interview where he was asked to outline his experience in Australia, the below
par interview motivated him to write the guide, which offers indispensable insight
into the Australian culture. “I realised I didn't know anything. I was so fixated
with getting good marks that I had learned nothing about Australia or Australian
culture,” the Age quoted Ong, as saying. The guide encourages international students
to get involved into the Australia life, and includes advice ranging from finding
a job to doing volunteer work. An Indian student, Vibhav Roy, who is a student
of Monash University, highlights that the biggest challenge for most students
was to adjust to the life away from family and overcoming loneliness. Roy admits
that students get so traumatised by the transition that some of them even decide
to return back home and says that the guide by Danny Ong would be invaluable to
students trying to negotiate housing, financial and cultural issues. Apart from
the guide, in the wake of recent attacks on international students, Danny Ong
has also advised newcomers to stay alert to potential dangers of late-night work
and travel.
|
|
|
Leading
Indian Newspapers
|
|
