Re: [Assam] [assam] 63% drop in student visa applications in Australia Report
The last line says it all. Australia gets better students from China, Vietnam than India. Last couple of years, so called students from Punjab, Delhi and Gujarat came in droves and enrolled in courses like hair dressing, cookery etc with the primary aim of working during their study period and then applying for a Permanent Residentship after completion of their certificate course. Also a number of fake colleges mushroomed to take in these pool of students. The Govt realised it's mistake in opening such vocational courses for international students. It was a loophole for migration. The rules have changed. Now students will have to complete their degree from a University and get relavent work experience in their related field before they can apply for a residentship. This, coupled with some violent incidents in the past year or two was too much for the so called students and so their numbers dropped. Genuine students continue to get enrolled in Australian Universities. However the rising cost of the $, with the Aus$ rising above the US$ is also a deterrent for prospective students. Comparison with the US will not be fair as US is a large economy. Budget of a mid level US university will overshadow that of Australia's biggest Uni ( Univ of NSW ) by a big margin. Jyotirmoy Perth. ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
Re: [Assam] [assam] 63% drop in student visa applications in Australia Report
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
Re: [Assam] [assam] 63% drop in student visa applications in Australia Report
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
