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Category: ESOS Recommendations

AAERI…

The new NATIONAL CODE (ESOS) 2018 finally announced and it is a huge victory for AAERI’s demand to retain the clause to check poaching. Can I also take some credit?

14 Sep 201714 Sep 2017
AAERI was the first association of education agents to raise concern against the move to remove the restriction on “change of provider” and had argued that this will work against…
AAERI…

Australian “first in the world” initiative of listing student outcomes “publicly” for recruiting agents is likely to be misdirected since it has missed differentiating between offshore and onshore recruitment objectives of education agents.

8 May 20178 May 2017
Immigration NZ began listing agent's visa success rate publicly last year and now Australia (not DIBP) wants to go one step further by listing "student outcomes" by education agents. Forgetting…
AAERI…

AAERI 26/08/16 mega event has posed “tough ethics test” for Education providers and another for ESOS policy makers … Chances are that they will fail !

30 Aug 201630 Aug 2016
20 years for any association is big and if that is of competing education agents, it is news by itself. However, now that the immediate euphoria following the event is…
AAERI…

US Higher Education Act prohibits payment of commission for onshore student recruitment and this is something that Australia must do if it wants to end poaching of students from Universities to lesser colleges onshore.

8 Aug 20168 Aug 2016
According to the US's 1992 Higher Education Act: [An] institution will not provide any commission, bonus, or other incentive payment based directly or indirectly on success in ensuring enrolments or…
AAERI…

Australia to introduce an accreditation for Education Agents and why it is critical that it succeeds in chaining the onshore activities of agents. And a call being made to remove/reduce commission payments for onshore recruitment of students.

5 Aug 20166 Aug 2016
Australian Government is now funding the IEAA to carry out a feasibility study on how to operationalise an industry-led quality framework for international education agents. This is exploring the potential…
AAERI…

International Education’s India 2012 Report Card and forecast for 2013: Market shrinking and 10,000 is the new “fee paying student” target.

15 May 201325 Aug 2013
Each year, I share a snapshot for the total numbers that went out to US, UK, Australian, Canada and NZ from India and the trends that can define the year…
AAERI…

Australian Streamlining implemented, Post Study Work detailed… imperfections continue to linger!

27 Mar 2012
This is an interesting week indeed. I have also just returned to the chaos after spending a few weeks in Australia that allowed me to hear and share the viewpoints…
AAERI…

Streamlining lesson for Australian Universities: “be careful what you lobby for! “

22 Feb 2012
My last blog gave an agent’s perspective to DIAC's innovative streamlining and that it indicated my observation of “surrender” on part of the Universities. Now I attempt to cover the…
education…

INDIA: New law on overseas university agents (in the offing!)

7 Feb 2011
Newslinks today inform: A new law making it mandatory for all education agents to register with the Indian government or face fines or jail terms, has been proposed in the…
australia…

Time for Aussie TUTORIAL to the “education” world!!!

15 May 201015 May 2010
Before Minister Sibal left for Australia in April, I, in my blog had suggested that he should take some tips from the Aussies regarding Vocational Education and any collaboration to…
AAERI…

Red Herrings… indeed: Summarising last 8 months of Indian-OZ tussle

19 Mar 201023 Mar 2010
”The whole racism issue has really coloured this debate in an unhealthy way, because when our media either seizes on that, or the Australian media in turn respond critically, we…
AAERI…

Baird’s ESOS Recommendations: Misplaced Diagnosis!!!

10 Mar 201011 Mar 2010
I have just put down the 95-paged Report submitted to the OZ Government by Former Liberal MP Bruce Baird recommending ESOS amendments. Find it here. THE AGE informs that Education…

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