Teaching and learning accounting with overseas students

People and Place

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 12-20

  Burch, Tony ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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ACCULTURATION; LEARNING; STUDENT; TEACHING;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 44249118846     PISSN: 10394788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (22)

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9. This is an interesting issue of possible reverse-discrimination in that the minority of serious, primarily Australian in origin, students consider themselves adversely impacted by the majority overseas-sourced student cohort.
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12. ibid.
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14. T. Burch and J. Nagy, 2007, op. cit.;
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19. Trigwell et al., 1999, op. cit.
20. B. Birrell, The Changing Face of the Accounting Profession in Australia, CPA Australia, November 2006
21. B. Birrell and V. Rapson, Migration and the Accounting Profession in Australia, CPA Australia, May 2005
22. The subject recently earned the highest overall student evaluations of subject and teaching of the ten largest subjects in the accounting discipline over two schools in the same university faculty.