Media reports from the country suggest that the Genuine Temporary Entrant requirement, used by authorities to determine whether students are coming to the country temporarily to gain a quality education, could be changed. Home Affairs already states that the GTE is “not intended to exclude” students who go on to apply for permanent residence after graduating from Australian institutions. New reforms, however, will allow prospective students to express their intent to migrate in their visa applications, reports say. The Australian said that the Albanese government is planning switch from the Genuine Temporary Entrant requirement to a new Genuine Student Test. Nothing has yet been confirmed…

Australia’s government has vowed to overhaul international education policies amid concerns that students, colleges and agents are exploiting weaknesses in the visa regime. Education minister Jason Clare said Canberra would target “dodgy and unscrupulous operators” who were “trying to take advantage” of foreign students by encouraging them to treat study as a “backdoor to work”. “This is a serious threat to the integrity of one of our biggest exports and it has got to be stamped out,” Mr Clare told the Australian Financial Review Higher Education Summit in Melbourne. He said home affairs minister Clare O’Neil was weighing recommendations from…

A report in the Financial Post examines the assertion made by Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre that there is an emerging pattern of immigrants dissuading potential newcomers from relocating to Canada. Nishant Kalia, a YouTuber based in Calgary and a recent immigrant himself, uploaded a 10-minute video in December. In this video, he delved into subjects such as the potential for recession and its effects on the Canada labor market, the upward trajectory of housing prices, and the looming specter of job layoffs. “If you think life in Canada would be glamorous from the very beginning, you would be making tons…

International students at participating education providers will be able to experience the best of Victoria at a fraction of the cost thanks to a new travel pass that underlines our standing as Australia’s top study destination. Helping reduce the cost of living pressures and encouraging students from 160 countries to see more of the Education State, the International Student Travel Pass provides benefits that leave other states flat-footed. Melbourne Train Station: Image Source @Canva Minister for Trade and Investment Tim Pallas encouraged students to investigate the card at the Study Melbourne YOUR PASS TO PLAY pop-up at Melbourne Central today,…

If you have a good idea, or a working prototype for a lucrative business innovation, then there are several investment funds who will be interested in what you have to say. Structured around communities of individual entrepreneurs, investors and tech enthusiasts, early stage investment funds are looking for opportunities to support disruptors, enablers and UX developers to break through in exchange for equity. Investment can range from a few thousand pounds into the multi-millions and can make a huge difference for a start-up transitioning to major adoption by the industry. The opportunity for technology-based solutions to prosper is clear in…

The data of millions of DuoLingo users scraped from the platform earlier this year is being offered on underground hacking forums for roughly $2 in value. Cybersecurity researchers from VX-Underground observed scraped user data of 2.6 million users being sold on the reborn Breached forum for 8 site credits – equivalent to around $2.13.”Today I have uploaded the Duolingo Scrape for you to download, thanks for reading and enjoy!,” the seller said in an ad posted to the site. Heavy discountThe data was first taken in January this year, using an exposed application programming interface (API), and includes a mix of publicly…

Another good column by Keller, on how the objectives of international student recruitment have been largely overtaken by economic objectives of low-paid workers: Over the last two decades, the number of foreign students studying in Canada has increased almost sevenfold, to more than 800,000. The jump has been particularly sharp in recent years. At the end of 2022, there were nearly half a million more visa students than in 2015. At first blush, this sounds like a success story: Canadian higher education must be so outstanding that record numbers from around the world are lining up to pay university and college…

In the summer of 2006, my family had taken the day off only to usher me towards the promise of a big bright future in which I was about to scale continents only to educate myself. Three weeks later, in a sketchy Melbourne suburb, I was battling stubborn stains in the heat of a commercial kitchen.The international student experience is not as advertised. But, 15 years after I was one myself, I now know exactly why: university brochures are to blame.Daksh Tyagi pictured in 2006, soon after he arrived in Australia as an international student. Now look, I am not…

Possible partial pivot but limited to international students, Minister Miller linking this to fraud concerns, not permanent residents and temporary workers.Kind of an interesting contradiction in the article between “pace of population growth, facilitated by immigration, is making the housing crisis worse” and “Most experts agree that the root causes of this housing shortage are unrelated to immigration.”The alarm bells are becoming bull horns: Canada’s housing supply isn’t keeping up with the rapid rate of population growth. Academics, commercial banks and policy thinkers have all been warning the federal government that the pace of population growth, facilitated by immigration, is…