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Australia sees rise in Indian students’ applications
Published on 23 Feb, 2012 at 8:06 in Education | Viewed 1 views times | No Comments
New Delhi: After a decline, Australia is once again registering a rise in number of Indian students applying for admissions to its universities, an official said Tuesday, adding that the country was safe for them.
Ted Baillieu, premier of Australia’s Victoria province who is visiting India, said that the number of Indian students in Australia saw a rise and the southern…
Indian, Australian institutes sign pact
Published on 16 Nov, 2011 at 23:03 in Education | Viewed 70 views times | No Comments
New Delhi: Australian vocational training institute, Southbank Institute of Technology, on Wednesday signed a pact with Franchise India Holdings Limited (FIHL) to provide vocational skill training to students.
In a step aimed at improving employability through focused vocational training, the two institutes will provide vocational training in fields like health and beauty, retail, hospitality and business management.
The students will be offered…
Get confirmed admission for Oz student visa
Published on 9 Nov, 2011 at 23:20 in Education | Viewed 138 views times | No Comments
New Delhi: Getting an Australian student’s visa will now require a confirmed admission in a course there, the Australian high commission here said.
Changes in students’ visa laws in Australia now compel those applying for it to produce a proof of enrolment in a course in Australia first. A statement from the high commission said the change has been made effective…
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At some stage whilst growing up, it is every little boy’s dream to jump into a rocket and propel into space to explore the unknown and swim amongst the stars.
Vaibhav Kumar is on the way to living his universe wide dream. An Australian –Indian who has lived in countries ranging from Hong Kong to Sweden, he is no stranger to adapting to what is foreign and unknown – a…
Indian students continue to shun Australia
Published on 28 Oct, 2011 at 4:02 in Education | Viewed 155 views times | No Comments
Melbourne: Even while the number of international students coming to Australia continues to fall, Malaysia has replaced India as the second largest source of students in the field of Higher Education.
As a result, the losses suffered by the Australian international education sector have ballooned to $2 billion in the last one year.
While China has maintained its top position as the…
Indians affected as Oz cancels 15,066 student visas
Published on 25 Oct, 2011 at 22:14 in Education | Viewed 166 views times | No Comments
Melbourne: Australia has revoked 15,066 student visas of foreign nationals. Also, over 3,000 students are facing deportation for poor performance in subjects.
As per the reports, Australian Immigration Department cancelled student visas for breaching visa conditions. This has affected Indians particularly hard.
About 3,624 students are facing deportation for flunking subjects or missing classes and a further 2,235 visas were cancelled on…
Drop in Indian students’ enrolment in Australia
Published on 19 Oct, 2011 at 23:00 in Education | Viewed 99 views times | No Comments
Melbourne: Victorian Premier, Ted Baillieu, expressed concern over the sharp drop in enrolment of Indian students in Australia.
“We are certainly concerned because the industry is significant for the Victorian economy and we have been concerned on variety of fronts. Some time ago there was issue of violence against International students and we sought to have greater security around international students,”…
Indian students lead rush for foreign MBA courses
Published on 3 Oct, 2011 at 0:02 in Education | Viewed 304 views times | No Comments
New Delhi: India contributes the highest number of foreign applicants to full-time MBA programmes. This comes despite the dip in overall number of applications to full-time foreign B-Schools for the third consecutive year.
Around 61 per cent of MBA programmes rank India as their top source of foreign talent. However, applications from Indian and Chinese students, make up the highest number of…
India will get more prominence at Harvard
Published on 7 Aug, 2011 at 13:20 in Education | Viewed 47 views times | No Comments
New Delhi : Harvard alumni in India will join hands with the growing Indian student community to make India the professional, academic and cultural focus at America’s premier Ivy League university that is celebrating 375 years of its existence, alumni heads said.
Harvard University, which boasts of high profile names such as union ministers Kapil Sibal and P. Chidambaram, held a first of its kind interactive event in the Indian…
NRI businessman offers rural students scholarships
Published on 6 Aug, 2011 at 10:34 in Education | Viewed 63 views times | No Comments
Thiruvananthapuram: An Oman-based Keralite businessman will offer scholarship for rural students from across the country to do a post-graduate course in management at the Asian School of Business (ASB).
George M. Thomas incidentally is the patron of the ASB and is doing this to give a boost to the industry’s rural thrust.
The annual intake would be 240 seats and the fees for the two-year programme is Rs 6.50 lakh.
“Besides free…
