Sharing with you guys this latest IMMIGRATION NEWS: ( sharing with you here since this is concerning all of us na nasa category na ito)
Just a part of this news item guys:
"It seems that in most cases the $15 billion Australian international education industry is suspended between the government's need to develop and sustain it and the Immigration trying to limit the number of non-genuine students. Stephen F Nagle, the director of Holmes Institute says "Governments do not understand the export education market well. There is always a conflict between the education department, which wants to encourage international students to come to Australia, and the immigration department, which wants to keep them out."
The latest in the string of student visa crackdown measures are letters that are being sent to students who have moved from Stream-line Visa Providers (SVP) to non SVP providers. From March 2012, SVP ensured that prospective students faced a less arduous application process if they provided confirmation of enrolment from a participating university in Australia at bachelor, masters or doctoral degree level. Such applications were treated as though they were a lower migration risk, regardless of their country of origin.
In letters issued recently to a number of students they have been informed that they are in breach of their student visa condition 8516 if they are continuing to pursue the same qualifications but have moved education providers from an SVP to a non SVP provider. This breach only applies to students from lower assessment level countries; that is the nations whose citizens Australia deems as likely to overstay their visas.
A Korean student on condition of anonymity tells us "In my opinion, being at a Uni doesn't automatically mean you get better education, I had such a hard time with Management accounting at a University but once I moved to Holmes Institute, the teacher was great and I passed the subject with flying colours. SVP or not, university or a college all that matters is the teacher, if a teacher can teach the subject right and you learn what you're meant to who cares where you get your degree or diploma from? In my opinion, it's unfair that since I am from a higher assessment level country I won't be penalized for changing course providers and someone else from another country is being penalized. Isn't that discriminatory? "-
Source: IMMIGRATION NEWS as reported by: Tanaya Das
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