University students from refugee backgrounds: why should we care?

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Acknowledgement

Sincere thanks to Professor Karen Fisher for her comments on this paper.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

Notes

1. In fact, the Bradley Review only mentions the word ‘refugee’ once, when discussing Youth Allowance rules.

2. See, for instance, http://www.swinburne.edu.au/study/courses/scholarships/45/access-scholarships.

3. In early 2016, New South Wales (NSW) universities, led by Western Sydney University Chancellor and NSW Coordinator-General for Refugee Resettlement Peter Shergold, made a strong public commitment to supporting refugee students in tertiary education, including through scholarships for Iraqi and Syrian refugees.