Uncategorized 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…
australia… 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…
Uncategorized 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…
Uncategorized 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…
Uncategorized 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…
Uncategorized 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…
Uncategorized 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…
Uncategorized 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…
Uncategorized 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…
Uncategorized 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…
Uncategorized 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…
Uncategorized 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…
Uncategorized 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…
Uncategorized 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…
Uncategorized 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…
Uncategorized 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…
Uncategorized 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…
Uncategorized 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.…
Uncategorized 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…
Uncategorized 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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