Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Paris as chief guest of France’s National Day on July 14, France has announced new initiatives to roll out the red carpet for Indian students and alumni. The number of Indian students going to France is increasing each year. In the first semester of 2023, offices of Campus France, the organisation in charge of promoting French higher education abroad, processed more than 4000 applications for long study in France. The positive trend is expected to continue with the total number of Indian students and researchers leaving for France expected to be close to…

Last year, Julian Hill, Labor’s federal member for Bruce, alleged that Australia’s international education sector had devolved into a “ponzi scheme” by attracting international students with easy work rights and permanent residency.Hill claimed that “agents in many parts of the world who are flogging our precious student visa as some kind of cheap, low-rent work visa” were “misusing” Australia’s generous work rights and the incentive of permanent residency.“We know that the incentive of a permanent visa to Australia is like a golden ticket from Willy Wonka’s chocolate bar”, he said.Hill was supported by Phil Honeywood, CEO of the International Education…

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A review of the criminal exploitation of Australia’s visa system is questioning the Labor Government’s resolve to fix the Coalition’s mistakes. Dr Abul Rizvi reports. FORMER POLICE Commissioner Christine Nixon’s damning report raises two crucial questions: how could the extraordinary level of exploitation of Australia’s visa system have been allowed by the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) – a department set up by Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and Secretary Mike Pezzullo specifically to make the visa system more secure against exploitation by criminals; and is the Government now doing enough to address the vulnerabilities? In her transmittal letter to Home…

Videos have gone viral on TikTok of a group of international students assisting their fellow foreign student who was found sleeping under a Toronto bridge. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. In the series of videos posted by Chirag Gondi, the group helps the unidentified student find housing for the night at what appears to be a local Salvation Army shelter. According to Gondi, the group spotted the student near Scarborough’s Victoria Park and stopped to speak with him. He told the group he needed to…

“International education [sometimes] gets a bad rap and unfortunately, education agents take that more than than anyone,” said English Australia CEO Brett Blacker. Within the Australian sector, he estimated that between 75-80% of all international students come via agents. “In English language, it’s more in the high nineties in that in that regard,” he continued. Data from 2019 suggested that 75% of all international enrolments in Australia came via agencies. TAFE provider in Geelong, Victoria, The Gordon receives between 85-90% of students through agents, according to executive director for Commercial Business, Jana Perera. Vice president for international at Torrens University, Rob McGowan, noted that since Covid-19, the…

Canada’s current International Education Strategy (IES) expires on March 31, 2024. Global Affairs Canada (GAC), in collaboration with Employment and Social Development Canada and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada are consulting stakeholders based on their mandates. In summer 2023, feedback from these consultations will be consolidated to inform the final version of the IES. GAC has launched consultations with provincial and territorial governments as well as with education associations and institutions. The IES consultations will continue until July 31, 2023.IES planning papersTo support the consultation process, GAC has developed a series of papers on Canada’s international education landscape.IES planning papersThese papers…

Bathinda: Ninety immigration consultants, IELTS centres and ticketing agencies have been found running against the rules in Bathinda district. These facts came to light in joint searches by police and revenue department teams. In all, 74 centres have been found running without a licence and 16 were found to be running in an unauthorised manner, as no intimation had been given to the local deputy commissioner’s office for opening a branch in the district.The district administration has written to the police to take action against the unauthorised centres under the Punjab Prevention of Human Smuggling Act, 2012, and the Punjab…

Short on time? Here are the highlights: Compared to 2018/19 as a baseline, student visa applications in New Zealand have recovered to nearly 60% of pre-COVID levels as of July 2023 Application volumes remain heavy this year and Immigration New Zealand continues to advise all students to apply well in advance of their planned programme starts Year-to-date figures released 5 July 2023 indicate that the volume of applications for New Zealand study visas is nearing 60% of pre-COVID levels. The reporting period for New Zealand runs from 1 July to 30 June each year and so the latest Immigration New…