Gauging impact of immigrant students

Dr Kelvin Seah Kah Cheng from the Dept of Economics at NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences shared findings from his recent study which suggested that greater exposure to immigrant students actually has a positive impact on the academic achievements of native students in Australia. Immigrant students in Australia have more negative impacts when they are non-native speakers of the test language, when they have less educated parents, and when they arrive in the host country at later ages.

• The Straits Times, 10 February 2016, Opinion, pA22