Key Problems Faced by Nepalese Female Students in Sydney

Running Head: LITERATURE REVIEW
ASSIGNMENT 2: LITERATURE REVIEW

LITERATURE REVIEW2
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................3
LITERATURE REVIEW...........................................................................................................3
International student experience in Sydney............................................................................3
Situation of the Nepalese students in Sydney.........................................................................4
Key problems and challenges faced by Nepalese female students studying in Sydney.........5
SUMMARY...............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................9

LITERATURE REVIEW3
INTRODUCTION
The following literature is going to be based on the research topic "Exploring key
problems and challenges faced by Nepalese international female students at Holmes Institute,
Sydney". This section will comprise of various relevant literature from different journal
articles which were searched by using the keyword method. The keywords used for searches
include international student, postgraduate students, Nepalese student, female, challenges,
problems, education, and higher education. The findings from the various literature are
produced as follows.
LITERATURE REVIEW
International student experience in Sydney
Australia has got a much-nurtured culture of academics, as a result, attracts a lot of
international students to the country. The students coming from around the world get shaped
to the ways of learning due to the enriched cultural paradigm (Talebloo and Baki, 2013).
After the students enrol themselves in the Australian culture of studying they need to face
various constraints related to the new and unfamiliar culture of academics. Some of the issues
that these international students have to face are an adaptation in the socio-cultural
environment, language barriers and acculturation. Unruh (2015) opined that it is seen very
often that the requirements of the English language hardly helps the students in preparing
themselves for the huge cultural adaptation that they have to make in order to establish
themselves in the Australian culture of education. However, there are much research done
and it has been seen that the problems are much more complex than just language barriers.
Tran and Gomes (2017) have identified that besides language there are other areas of conflict
such as structured or non-structured learning, the involvement of the students and the
professor, learning styles and plagiarism. The collaboration of the students and the teaching
faculty is also very bleak as a result there are several international students who are
struggling to find the necessary support as well as services from the authority.
Social isolation or in other words staying far away from the family and adjusting to
the new way of life in a totally new country actually takes a toll on the phycology of these
international students. The Cambridge International College made a survey among 1155
students in three different colleges located in Melbourne. The result of this survey was that