Dear BK: What is your personal view if a 'phoren' :-) education is of any benefit to a 'desi', regardless of whether he/she returns to India and regardless of the quality of the particular 'education' as compared with an equivalent 'desi' education'?
I ask the question because you are one amongst us who has, most likely, the longest number of years of the benefit of first hand experience of seeing both. s On Aug 7, 2011, at 3:50 PM, bbar...@aol.com wrote: > Dear Netters: > > I have been posting figures of Indian students going abroad for higher > studies. Here is a report on visas for Australia. We know why Australia is > shunned > by Indian students. > > 63% drop in student visa applications from India in Australia: Report > PTI | Aug 3, 2011, 10.54AM IST > > > Read more:student visa applications from India|Simon Marginson|Melbourne > University|Indians in Australia|immigration department > > MELBOURNE: Australia has recorded a drop of almost 63 per cent in offshore > international student visa applications from India in the last financial > year, according to latest official data. > > The figures also show an overall drop of 20 per cent in the offshore > international student visa applications, media reports said on Wednesday. > > The Indian market has been the hardest hit by the fall in offshore > applications with a drop of 63 per cent. > > The June month Immigration Department's quarterly report on the student visa > programme revealed that the number of offshore applicants from India dropped > from 18,514 in the 2009-10 financial year to just 6875 in the 2010-11 > financial year. > > Apart from this even applications from China, Australia's largest source > country for international students, also dropped 24.3 per cent. > > Melbourne University higher education expert Simon Marginson said the drop > showed the sector was still a way off from a recovery. > > "[There is] no sign that we have yet reached the bottom of the curve," he > said. > > Marginson said the steep drop-off in offshore applications was largely > because of federal government changes to the visa criteria and skilled > migration list. > > "Demand for Australian education in India always was relatively soft and the > elimination of the migration-related industry run through education agents, > plus the image problems triggered by the violence, has permanently depressed > the prospects of recruitment in that country," he said. > > Professor Marginson said the drop in applications from Vietnam - down 31 per > cent - and China was of greater concern. > > "China and south-east Asia are our core markets [and] far more worrying is > the defection of part of the student market in China and Vietnam, where > demand is more education-centred, and the quality of students coming to > Australia has been higher than those coming from India," he said. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > assam mailing list > assam@assamnet.org > http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org _______________________________________________ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
