When Filipino Tricia Mirasol was researching her options for an Australian master’s degree, Macquarie University was a clear standout.
“Macquarie’s special education program impressed me the most,” she says. “I was amazed at the work they do at the Special Education Centre (MUSEC).”
Thai researcher Yupaporn Piriyasilpa is happy to be back at Macquarie.
BRB, IMHO, LOL – the online world is full of strange new phrases. So does a student learning English online develop a different kind of English than someone learning from a textbook?
Win Sum Cheung was faced with a lot of options when choosing a university for her postgraduate speech pathology degree.
Born in Canada, raised in Hong Kong and with an undergraduate linguistics degree from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Win Sum Cheung knew she wanted to pursue a professional speech pathology career in Hong Kong, but wanted the option of working in an English speaking country as well.
“I can't think of any other place where I’d be happier than Macquarie,” says scholarship recipient Ana Paola Suárez Uribe.
It was Ana Paola Suárez Uribe’s dealings with local government in her hometown of Mexico City that convinced her to pursue a postgraduate degree in environmental sciences.
Managing a community waste management program in La Mexicana – one of the poorest communities in Mexico City – Ana encountered a number of frustrating political roadblocks.
