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questions aim to discover their assumptions/expectations about knowledge,learning, and in the influences within a cross-culture education environment. interview questions for teaching staff. These questions aim to unearth theirassumptions/expectations about knowledge, learning and teaching thatinfluences the relationship between lecturer and the student of Asianbackground within a cross-culture education environment. The interviews wereconducted in such a way that the interviewees talked about their thoughts,feeling and experiences around the designated interview questions. interview questions for Australian students. This set of questions is also basedon the survey and aims to establish their assumptions/expectations about theknowledge, learning and teaching in a cross-culture education environment. interview questions for graduates of Asian background graduates. Thesequestions aim to discover their previous learning experiences with in a crosscultureeducation environment and to identify successful cases which can beused in our student guidelines.Step 8 Interview data analysisA total of 50 people from the five universities participated in the interviews, including10 lecturing staff, 25 students of Asian background, 7 Australian local students and8 graduates of Asian background. Interview data was analysed by a set ofqualitative analysis methods. More details are discussed in Section 6.Step 9 Final data analysis, findings and evaluationThe results from survey data analysis and interview data analysis are compared andcombined for a comprehensive analysis. Key effects on the progress of learningover its various phases and their impact on the quality of experience have beensummarised and finalised. Identified factors that influence teaching and learning in amulticultural environment provide a basis from which findings can be obtained, andupon which guidelines and suggestions can be made to improve the quality ofteaching and learning in Australian universities.Step 10 Completion of guidelines and final reportWe have completed two sets of guidelines/suggestions for staff and studentsrespectively based on the analysis results. See Sections 7 and 8 of this report fordetails. In the report, we present the research methodology we used, the dataanalysis results obtained, and also the findings on different expectations betweenteachers and Asian students, and the need for extra resources or support for thestudent cohort based on their learning difficulties and frustrations.Step 11 Communication of results:The comprehensive report with two sets of guidelines/suggestions are beingcommunicated to academics and managers in related universities, and also relevantgovernment departments, through giving public seminars to workshops,conferences, and submitting this report to universities and ALTC.We have completed six papers for international conferences and forums to reportour findings of this project and to obtain very positive feedback from experts andacademics. We are completing another three papers for international journals andconferences. We have also given presentations in seminars and meetings todistribute the results of the project and obtain feedback and evaluations from varioussources including students, lecturers and managers/officers.11