Rationale of "Part-time jobs and the international students"

    Our survey is about part-time jobs and the international students and this investigation will focus on international students at Swinburne University.
    
      Recently, more and more international students have been choosing to study in Australia because Australian government has brought more exciting opportunities to them such as studying at universities in Australia without IELTS and allowing them to do part time jobs 40 hours every 2 weeks.
    
       As for getting part-time jobs in Australia, international students are able to earn more money to pay their tuition fees and get work experience. However, to work a job while studying at university is today becoming an enormous problem not only for Australian government but also for international students. An illustration for this point can be seen in the fact that a number of overseas students work part-time jobs illegally and this has a negative effect on their health and performance at school. Therefore, we would like to investigate how many overseas students at Swinburne University are working part-time jobs and what their experiences are. We will conduct a survey and report the results through pie and bar charts. Our questions will be asked about  group ages, gender, weekly hours and wages, kind of part-time jobs, employer and health.
   
      Our first expectation is that most international students are doing their part time jobs as waiter, kitchen hand or cashier which they found on website. Moreover, we anticipate that to work a part time job could have negative impacts on overseas students such as lack of time in studying. In addition, doing a part time jobs at the weekend may be the most popular option for international student to balance between study and work. Finally, our survey expects that  a minority of international students in Swinburne University would do part-time jobs illegally due to working time, salary and tax file number.

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  1. Julia GardinerMay 23, 2018 at 5:48 AM

    A well structured rationale that clearly states your hypotheses about international students and part-time work.
    Can I suggest that you replace the word 'expedition' in the last oar graph with the word 'expectation'.
    I look forward to reading the summary and discussion of your findings.

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    1. ThomasShotaMay 25, 2018 at 7:08 AM

      Thank you for supporting us, we correct the word immediately ! (^_^)

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