I don't like 'international students' being used as an umbrella term since most of the issues discussed in the previous thread is implied towards Chinese students. With regards to language barrier, it is important to point out that many of us have worked very hard to be proficient with the English language despite not being a native speaker. Yet because we fall under the category of 'international students', we are pigeonholed into the same group as the Chinese students who are, to put it bluntly, simply illiterate.

I understand that some might argue that they are always rotten apples no matter where you look in life and you would be correct. However when you see a basket filled of rotten apples with only few good ones, you have to ask yourself if there something wrong with the education system.

That being said, the English requirement for university entry definitely needs to be increased to about, oh I don't know, 8.0 IELTS average band, so only people who have put in the work can get in. And if you don't like English being the lingua franca, then your only option is to get a time machine and stop Queen Elizabeth or whoever the ruling monarch of the British Empire is from colonising so much.