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Comment on Streamlining lesson for Australian Universities: “be careful what you lobby for! “ by Ravi Lochan Singh

Ravi Lochan Singh — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:17:38 +0000

The tough thing is to find out as to who is unscrupulous and who is not. Big renowned trend setters sometimes do things that make them so too. They could franchise and the franchisee or subagent could cut corners… Its a difficult world.

Comment on Streamlining lesson for Australian Universities: “be careful what you lobby for! “ by Mahul Shah

Mahul Shah — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:03:13 +0000

Ravi, What I see happening is agents are now going to try working with other destinations (countries), as well as with Australia, so as to supplement their income. International education recruitment becomes cyclic. One day Australian visa’s are “easy” to get, then they “tighten” up and UK looks attractive, and so on. I do hope unscrupulous agents are pushed out, as they give the whole sector a bad reputation.

Comment on Streamlining lesson for Australian Universities: “be careful what you lobby for! “ by Ravi Lochan Singh

Ravi Lochan Singh — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:06:13 +0000

The reason for the change is in the title of the blog and in the closing remarks. The Universities lobbied the government for easier visas for their students over the others. Now all the Universities have opted in and the Immigration has involved them in screening of the students. More than what they bargained for…

Comment on Streamlining lesson for Australian Universities: “be careful what you lobby for! “ by Saptarshi Kar

Saptarshi Kar — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:36:44 +0000

I don’t know why all these changes. The rules in place under Howard Govt when I was on a 574 visa were absolutely fine.

Comment on Streamlining lesson for Australian Universities: “be careful what you lobby for! “ by Venu Babu Chintapatla

Venu Babu Chintapatla — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:59:35 +0000

Rahul, not all big companies are doing the right thing. I have seen big companies doing the wrong thing to survive the last 2 years slump. So, Uni’s have to be careful about some big agents and take inputs from DIAC about the quality of applications lodged by them.

Comment on Streamlining lesson for Australian Universities: “be careful what you lobby for! “ by Ravi Lochan Singh

Ravi Lochan Singh — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:57:09 +0000

@Venu: by the time side-effects appear, be ready for a full review of this initiative. I believe that the full life cycle of the new AL system in the current form is only 2-3 years. Be ready for private campuses of the government Universities to face closure by 2013. We also expect some streamlining for TAFE and maybe some Pvt Providers too within a year. It is going to be such a confusing visa system in one year that the “quality agents” will be indispensable.

Comment on Streamlining lesson for Australian Universities: “be careful what you lobby for! “ by Venu Babu Chintapatla

Venu Babu Chintapatla — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:49:09 +0000

A very difficult situation for the agents and universities. 1st year will be Happy days for the Universities, we will get to see the side effects later. But, as you said ,all Universities will work with only ” Few Quality Agents” only.

Comment on Streamlining lesson for Australian Universities: “be careful what you lobby for! “ by Ravi Lochan Singh

Ravi Lochan Singh — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:34:10 +0000

Rahul-Lets put it this way… The number of agents operating in India will come down. Only those who are contracted by Universities and have a track record will continue. I guess this is what is desired by the system too. Now, I actually fear for some large agencies too whose model has been loose and who have primarily worked through franchising where they have little contact with the students directly… I also feel that regional agents will do well. The idea is to remain niche.

Comment on Streamlining lesson for Australian Universities: “be careful what you lobby for! “ by Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:50:04 +0000

Ravi – Big companies representing major Australian Univ will blossom and small companies representing a few Australian Univ in a niche market will perish……

Comment on Streamlining lesson for Australian Universities: “be careful what you lobby for! “ by Ravi Lochan Singh

Ravi Lochan Singh — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:18:07 +0000

I agree that the Universities will have to work far closer with their agents now… In my previous blog on the same theme I had mentioned…”Finally, the immigration is indirectly telling Universities that there are some good agents and that some agents do good work and that good Universities need to work with these good agents.”