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Ravi Lochan Singh is the Managing Director of Global Reach, a company that has been representing leading Universities from around the world for 32+ years. An alumnus of India's The Doon School, Delhi's SRCC and thereafter having completed an MBA from Bond University, Australia; he founded the company in 1991. Ravi has been working with various international bodies across countries in the development of the self-regulatory structures for the industry. His role with AAERI (the one of its kind agent body promoted by the Australian Government Departments) has earned him recognition as a major stakeholder in the education export industry. His blogs on education topics has significant following and his comments on matters of importance pertaining to his sector can ruffle settled notions. The blog is his personal expression and mayn't be read as official statements of organisations that he is associated with.
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Australian Student Visa Reforms: Michael Knight delivers: Family delighted though baby slightly pre-matured!

22 Sep 2011
Australia is a few hours ahead and the developments in Canberra certainly meant a “Good Morning” to me… This is how an SMS woke me from my slumber… and the…
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We often criticize private education providers; sometimes we are wrong too… They donot just grab opportunities, they take lead too.

10 Aug 201110 Aug 2011
There is an advert in THE AGE that clearly holds the mirror to the Australian Government. This advert released by ACPET is simply repeating what has been said so many…
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By Opposing Phoren Dreams of Desi Boyz!!!; Anna follows Morarji, not Gandhi…

7 Aug 2011
New Delhi, Aug. 6: Anna Hazare today claimed that Manmohan Singh and Kapil Sibal had not been able to understand how India works because of their “education abroad”. The Telegraph…
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20 years after graduating from Bond; Australia acknowledges my role… Thanks.

4 Aug 20115 Aug 2011
The 2011 Australian Alumni Excellence Awards were presented at an awards ceremony held in Chennai on Wednesday, August 3. Senator the Hon Chris Evans,Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace…
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Marks do-not matter in life…

15 Jul 2011
SRCC, my alma-mater once again hogged the national headlines but this time for an obnoxious reason: It released a cut-off for admission at 100%. I understand that only 1 student…
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery… Institutions poaching on goodwill of other established brands confirm this.

15 Jul 201115 Jul 2011
My son studied at Oxford and now is pursuing further studies in US... This is how an elderly gentlemen from a countryside town in Maharashtra informed me in a casual…
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As US debates “banning education agents”, experts present the “pros and cons”.

21 Jun 2011
In USA, National Association for College Admission Counseling, or NACAC, proposed forbidding members from using commission-based agents abroad. (NACAC policy and federal law prohibit commission-based recruitment in the United States…
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As QS moves into education representation; competitors become commentators…

15 Jun 20116 Jun 2021
THE AUSTRALIAN reported today that LONDON-BASED education company Quacquarelli Symonds Consulting, known for its university rankings, has moved into the student recruitment business. QS signed its first agency, the Indian-based Global…
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My prescription to Australia for immediate cure: if it listens, I can bet a revival of the market… If it doesn’t, the described “collapse” is the final word.

25 May 201125 May 2011
The March ending data is now available and it indicates that in the 9 months period (July 2010 to March 2011), only about 2200 Indian students entered Australia indicating a…
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I ain’t gonna be just a face in the crowd; You’re gonna hear my voice when I shout it out loud.

24 May 2011
Its an sad irony that IITs are not "honestly" world-class but because parents believed them to be, thousands continue to chase the engineering dreams and actually end up in dodgy…
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Australian ends IELTS/IDP monopoly finally… Now NZ must follow.

21 May 2011
The announcement on Friday (yesterday) that Australia will end the monopoly of IELTS and hence also of IDP by accepting three other English Proficiency Tests certainly made my day. Not…
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Prime Minister Cameron slams “free ride to London” advert scampaign reemphasising the need for a code of conduct for education agents.

21 May 2011
LONDON: U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday claimed an Indian organisation which made money out of sending migrants to Britain had put up a billboard in India with a…
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Big Three (US, UK and Australia) nose-dive; boosting the numbers for New Destinations!

21 May 201123 May 2011
What's happening to the outflow of Indian Students to Education Destinations around the world? The experts have been baffled as not one, two or three reasons but a combination of…
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The “Push” and “Pull” of International Education…

16 May 2011
This is something that we wonder all the time. What drives a student to seek overseas education? I have often challenged those who think that setting up foreign campuses in…
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Does Anna Hazare understand “corruption in education”? His rejecting of the IIPM award signals that he does!

9 May 20119 May 2011
The following news item missed eyeballs as the fact remains that a part and parcel of the corruption in education is the role of media. Popular media is so centric…
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India wins Cricket World Cup & My observations from the supposedly “multicultural” Australia!

6 Apr 2011
India wins Cricket World Cup rekindling my “multiculturalism” belief not just for India but also for Australia. Multiculturalism, whatever it means, don’t junk it. Just better manage it. May even…
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UKBA Student changes. Revising my “initial comments” now that Full details are revealed.

1 Apr 20111 Apr 2011
I had done a blog on 23rd April with my initial comments on the announced UKBA changes. The full details have just been released and you can find them on…
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WIKILEAKS & OZ’S INDIAN STUDENT ISSUE: NOTHING NEW AND NEWSWORTHY… MEDIA GROW UP AND LISTEN TO AFRIDI. STOP SENSATIONALIZING!

31 Mar 201131 Mar 2011
Even as I watched the Indian-Pakistan encounter in WC Semi-finals, Times Now kept flashing the breaking news that WIKILEAKS CONFIRMS THAT RACISM WAS BEHIND ATTACKS ON INDIAN STUDENTS IN AUSTRALIA.…
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UK: Don’t listen to my blogs… do pay heed to your own quality reportage.

29 Mar 201129 Mar 2011
Picking on international students is a backward step Balaji Ravichandran www.guardian.co.uk, Monday 28 March 2011 12.29 BST ◦ The loss of the post-study work visa deprives Britain of the cultural…
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UKBA announces changes from April 2011: I predict the end of a good story…

23 Mar 201123 Mar 2011
YES NO YES NO YES: UK DOUBLE-SPEAK FOLLOWS THE REST AND MAKES LIFE HARDER FOR INDIAN STUDENTS… Will PSW continue after April? Will it Not, UKBA? Finally UKBA releases the…

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