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AAERI…

Presenting 2016 report card: Indian student’s preferred study destinations. And my projections for 2017.

3 Mar 20173 Mar 2017
For the purpose of this analysis, I am using statistics for “student visa granted during the year” and this is not to be confused with “students enrolled from a source…
education…

Oft mis-interpreted IIE Open Doors 2016 enrolment statistics… Sorting out the real data on Indian student numbers to US and its future post Trump…

22 Nov 201623 Nov 2016
Like each year, US released the enrolment statistics and confused many. Most "incorrectly" believe (including experts and student counsellors) that number of Indian students who went to US in 2015-16…
AIU…

Why only/mostly “Hyderabad” students tend to get deported from USA? What’s amiss is the recruitment model that has distanced this region from rest of the country.

10 Jun 201610 Jun 2016
  India is frequently abuzz with media reports on Indian students being deported from various US Universities. The intriguing commonality is that the bulk of such affected students are from…
AAERI…

Bad data used in British Council’s Inside India report: Enrolment and Fresh Student Statistics has been used interchangeably. Should I just say LOL!

6 Dec 20136 Dec 2013
The higher education supplements around the world are reporting the Inside India report of British Council. The basic statistics quoted in the report is incorrect and so the summaries reported…
AAERI…

Indian summer (An Article in THE AUSTRALIAN inspired by my blog)

28 May 201330 May 2013
INDIAN enrolments are declining worldwide as key education exporters clamp down on migration and work rules. BY:JOHN ROSS From:The Australian May 28, 2013 (http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/indian-summer/story-e6frgcjx-1226651649611) Australian-based agent Ravi Lochan Singh said “fresh”…
AAERI…

BREAKING MYTH HERE: Indian Student Numbers “going overseas” not increasing! REALITY: FEWER Indian students are now going overseas. Total numbers to BIG FIVE DESTINATIONS has dropped to One-Third in last four years!!!

26 May 201326 May 2013
Sorry "analysts and experts": You have been wrong with your projections. Sorry journalists and education writers: You have recycled the misinformation fed by the the various bodies and incorrectly reported…
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…
australia…

Ozzie PM Gillard all set for a self-goal next week with the Post Study Work (expanded 485) visa… A clear case of political bad-timing which she can’t help now…

20 Mar 201320 Mar 2013
If the Post Study Work visa (expanded 485) is indeed implemented next week, it is likely to be a case of bad timing for the Gillard Government and a clear…
attacks…

With the killing of an Indian student “also” in Canada: Is it hate-crimes on an increase… jury is still out.

5 Jan 20125 Jan 2012
Manchester Police's terming Anuj Bidwe killing as a Hate-Crime; the news was certainly worrying and then came the news of the killing of Alok Gupta in Canada. We have had…
AAERI…

OZ and BRITISH official studies find EDUCATION AGENTS AS VITAL… Shutting off the opinionated.

21 Nov 2011
“While gap exists, education agents will be there to fill it" BRITAIN FIRST: Education agents are essential to the international education industry, despite the controversy that surrounds them. This is…
australia…

Mirroring of Immigration Policies leading to a boring and flat world indeed…

18 Feb 2011
A perfect theory till NZ played spoiler. I present my “cut and paste” hypothesis suggesting that immigration policies are being copied from one nation to another. There was a time…
AAERI…

2010 report-card and 2011 prediction: Demand from India for International Destinations

25 Nov 201030 Nov 2010
With 2010 Indian Student Data available for all major destinations and with UK too showing a huge decline(40%), is it a depression in the industry or a mere correction causing…

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