Posted by alexandra_k on March 30, 2022, at 18:53:19
1) the first thing we want to do is convince anyone who we select to study in new zealand that they were undesirable to everywhere else. that is to say, they were undesirable to the usa, to canada, to england and the uk, to australia. in other words: we want it to be clear to prospective or potential students that there is no english speaking alternative. if they want to go to english speaking secondary school or university there is no alternative for them but new zealand. they are scraping the bottom of the barrel. that is what we are. that is what we want them to believe.
2) that means they are set up from the get go that there is no option or alternative for them. that they are undesirable everywhere else. that they take what they are given in new zealand else they have nothing at all.
3) that means they have consented to pretty much anything we choose to do to them. right?
4) now we go through the applications trying ot identify the most vulnerable. now, the main aim or goal or point or purpose in international studnet selection is to select the students with the most money. we want to think carefully about how much money we can extract out of the studnets family as ransom for them, perhaps. that's a viable alternative. we could arrange for the parents to be told that the studnet has been raped and they are being detained by the university health clinic until they pay the 'hospoital bill' or we could say they can't have their graduation until they pay library fines.. or... welll, they likely failed their final class fo rtheir degree. so they'll need to take extra time. not jjust a summer school likely repeate a whole year... maybe they need to repeat the year twice... maybe they are doing a double degree programme where they take 5 years to complete 2 degrees (with cross credits) only 7 years later they haven't been given any degrees... but they are required to keep paying the university... else they can be deported with no degree. but likely more money for keepling them in prison as an over-stayer... so many options... that need to be considered in international studnet selection...
5) we want to cull any of the studnets who obviously have the capacity to do the degree, if we possibly can.
6) we want to try and select the students who know they don't have the capaciaty or who suspect they don't who will pay premium prices for the university giving them a qualifiation in a somewhat timely fashion. all the extra money they will lpay... five thousand extra for 'university editing services' to help them write essays. and so on. all the extra money they will lpay the university for private tutoring. and so on... maybe the parents will make extra donations to the university... maybe the parents will donate ten thousand dollars and five thousand can go to their kid in the name of a university scholarship. there can be a ceremony if they will pay for that. photos taken of their amazingly talented kid shaking the hands of the university officials. hell, maybe the kids parents can even pay for unew university officials! photographers and caterers and...
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