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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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REDUCING COST OF EDUCATION… 10 QUESTIONS FOR THE NaMo GOVERNMENT… (Reproducing Maheshwer Peri’s recent article).

11 Oct 2014
OK, so: When we move a mouse, the world moves; We want to be the worlds supplier for skilled workforce; India can be the skill capital of the world. Haven't…
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Delhi High Court issues its landmark judgement on IIPM… Time for the (pony)tail between the legs for the one who has been “counting his chicken before they hatched”…

27 Sep 201425 Mar 2015
For years IIPM offered its fraud degrees across India and used its various "unrecognised" institutions in India and overseas to duck the legal system. Thousands of students have been marketed…
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▶ Al Jazeera World – Shattered Dreams – Recent report on how “some” agents and “some” colleges operate… Thought provoking…

21 Sep 2014
▶ Al Jazeera World - Shattered Dreams - Video Dailymotion.
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Oh No!!! India is to reverse the earlier decision of a bridging course for UK 1-year Masters. Shorter degrees will remain un-recognised in India. Another messed up “education” decision by Smriti Irani’s Ministry…

15 Sep 201415 Sep 2014
Minister Irani has been in controversies over her disputed academic qualifications and false declarations. By continuing to un-recognise shorter UK Master degrees, she can now get back at Rahul Gandhi…
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Indian Medical Screening tests seem designed to keep Chinese Medicos out…

25 Aug 201425 Aug 2014
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Despite less Indian students reaching its Universities, UK announces further tightening… WHY?

30 Jul 201431 Jul 2014
Mirror Mirror on the wall, Who is the most "unwelcoming" of them all !!! The answer actually is known to all but the policy makers in the UK seem to be…
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India’s becoming a permanent member of Washington Accord is great news but Minister Irani probably misread that all Engineering degrees will now be at par globally…

15 Jun 2014
After years of effort and several failures, India finally became the 17th member of the exclusive Washington Accord on Friday. It will help create equivalence of engineering degree programmes and…
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Best News for Indian Education: India included as a “permanent member” of Washington Accord.

13 Jun 201413 Jun 2014
The Washington Accord is an International Agreement among bodies responsible for accrediting undergraduate engineering degree programs. It recognizes the substantial equivalency of programs accredited by those bodies and recommends that…
Australian Government…

SOL 2014-15 finalised: Accounting, IT stays on; Chefs added… I win the bet…

11 Jun 2014
In February, I had blogged that ... ...would “wager my bet” on Accountant and also the various IT professions continuing in the SOL when it is released. ( https://ravilochansingh.com/2014/02/18/will-accountant-make-it-to-aussie-sol-in-2014-again-time-to-wager-a-bet/ )…
Government of India…

If the Minister “hastily” scraps Delhi University’s FOUR YEAR DEGREE format, it will be her first mistake…

6 Jun 20146 Jun 2014
If Smriti Irani, India's "fresh" HRD minister goes ahead with BJP's promised agenda item of scrapping the 4 year format, it will be her first mistake. The four year format…
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US First Lady sells STUDY ABROAD… what a contrast to Indian leaders who consider this as “brain drain”…

6 Jun 2014
In March, the First Lady Michelle Obama spoke to American and Chinese students at the Stanford Center at Peking University on the importance of studying abroad. When I hear her spell…
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My wish-list for the Minister on Indian Education has caught attention… Hindustan Times has reported it and now MHRD will take a look… Power of blogging indeed.

5 Jun 2014
On 30th May, I put out my wish-list for the new Minister for HRD (Education). It can be found on the following link.  Hindustan Times of this day has reported…
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My wish-list for Indian Education: An OPEN LETTER to the Honourable Minister for HRD, Smt Smriti Zubin Irani.

30 May 20141 Jun 2014
Honourable Minister, I know that your first few days in the job have been taken up in a controversy around your qualification and also the fact that you mis-represented under…
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Changing bottles does not change the wine… Education NZ reboots its education agent engagement: IEEN to NZIER to NZSA and now to ENZRA and then further ENZOP…

30 May 201430 May 2014
  But then inability to build a lasting relationship with education agents can turn out to be the nemesis for the program. I have been an active supporter of NZ…
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Why Indians have to “lie” about their qualification? Case of Mukesh Ambani and its contrast with Steve Ballmer.

30 May 201430 May 2014
The former CEO of Microsoft and the current Chairman of Reliance Industries studied at Stanford at the same time. Both dropped out at the end of first year itself. However…
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Now some Australian TAFE/Private Advanced Diplomas to also get SVP…

27 May 2014
I can visualise TAFE providers (and some Private Institutions) feeling so relieved. However, just hold on... The list of providers is to be decided later this year but would assume…
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Is there a degree that a Prime Minister should possess?

25 May 201426 May 2014
Apparently None. A few days back I shared links to an article which listed educational qualifications of current world leaders and compared that to the fact that the Indian PM…
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IELTS loses it’s monopoly as Australia to accept TOEFL and PTE for most visas. Interesting development at a time when UK and Ireland have stopped accepting TOEFL even for the student visas.

23 May 201423 May 2014
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My prayer for the new phase in my country… India has given a clear mandate in favour of Modi.

16 May 2014
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Speaking at Australia-India Institute, Swapan Dasgupta explains why “Modi” is good for India and why I am wrong about him… Will remain a critic though!

15 May 2014
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