India, China propel foreign students market in AustraliaSeptember 24th, 2009 SYDNEY - Indian and Chinese students are fuelling Australia's education sector growth, latest statistics show. Indian student enrolments in the country reached 121,000 by this June.
Victoria Premier cancels visit to Mumbai over terror fearsSeptember 21st, 2009 MELBOURNE/NEW DELHI - Victoria Premier John Brumby has cancelled the Mumbai leg of India tour due to terrorism fears. According to The Age, Brumby will now visit just Delhi and Bangalore after a travel warning from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade claimed that terrorists could be preparing to strike in Mumbai.
'Australia to compensate students facing racist attacks'August 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Australian government would ensure that student victims of racist attacks either get a seat in a different college or are refunded the entire college fee, Australian Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard said here Monday. Gillard, who is on a five-day visit to India, was interacting with students of the Lady Shri Ram College.
Australia's crackdown on rogue colleges could affect thousands of Indian studentsAugust 20th, 2009 MELBOURNE - The Australian Government proposed crackdown on vocational colleges and universities could leave thousands of international students, especially those from India, looking for somewhere else to study or needing refunds as rogue operators are shut down. In a move to root out unscrupulous operators in the visa-driven sector, Education Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard yesterday introduced legislative changes forcing all 1300 registered colleges and universities to re-register under tighter guidelines.
Exodus of Indian students can cost Oz state 300-mn dollars annuallyAugust 2nd, 2009 SYDNEY - The racist attacks on Indians can have a huge impact on the Australian economy, with New South Wales facing a potential loss of about 300 million dollars in revenue from a possible exodus of Indian students. Acting Opposition education spokesman Andrew Stoner said an estimated 20,000 Indian students were studying in NSW at any one time, contributing close to 600 million dollars to the state economy in a year.
Don't call Indian students in Australia soft targets: Indian envoyJuly 21st, 2009 SYDNEY - India's Consul General Amit Dasgupta feels it's not proper to call Indian students in Australia "soft targets," a term used by the police to describe recent attacks against them over the last two months. "I have problem with term soft targets because I think it is a term which one can use to almost say that the way you behave becomes a justification for attracting attacks.
Racism exists in Australia: Oz officialJune 14th, 2009 MELBOURNE - With attacks on Indian students continuing in Australia, Race Discrimination Commissioner Tom Calma believes there is a case to give a racist tag to them. Calma admitted that racism existed in Australia, but said the whole country should not be blamed for it.
Australia's image in India damaged by attacks on Indian students: McCarthyJune 13th, 2009 MELBOURNE - The Australian High Commissioner in New Delhi, John McCarthy, has said that his country's relationship with India has been damaged by attacks on Indian students, and it will take time to recover. McCarthy said India's voracious 24-hour cable news channels had helped stoke the wave of fear and outrage among Indians in both countries.
Australia cracks down on education providers in wake of Indian student attacksJune 13th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Australia has forced a nation wide quality crackdown on education and training providers, to shore up the reputation of country's 15.5 billion dollars education export industry, after its reputation was damaged in wake of protests against attacks on Indian students. Education Minister Julia Gillard also announced another taskforce, as it ratchets up its response to the attacks that have attracted international news coverage and sparked street protests.
Another Indian student attacked in OzJune 12th, 2009 MELBOURNE - In yet another attack on Indians in Australia, a 22-year-old student was allegedly assaulted by a teenager in Adelaide's busy Rundle Mall. According to the police, the attack took place on Thursday.
Australia pledges better protection for Indian studentsJune 12th, 2009 SYDNEY - Indian students were given a pledge Friday that the Australian government would do all in its power to protect them from the racist attacks that threaten both the billion-dollar education industry and bilateral ties. "We are sending a message to the Australian community that there is absolutely zero tolerance for any form of discrimination against international students," Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard said after a crisis meeting of the states' education ministers.
Indian students could move to New Zealand if racial attacks continue in AustraliaJune 3rd, 2009 WELLINGTON - Indian students based in Australia may opt to go to neighbouring New Zealand if the racially motivated attacks Down Under don't stop. Education New Zealand chief executive Robert Stevens said he had been in touch with the New Zealand Trade and Enterprise office in India yesterday, urging the office to market New Zealand and Australia as "totally different societies".
New South Wales government to meet with Indian community leadersJune 3rd, 2009 SYDNEY - The New South Wales Government will convene a meeting with Indian community leaders and police amid international disquiet over attacks on foreign students in Australia. NSW Premier Nathan Rees told the NSW parliament that he would convene a meeting involving representatives from the Indian student community, the education sector and Community Relations Commission chair Stepan Kerkyasharian.
Indian student attacks is bad news for lucrative Oz education sector: Trade MinisterJune 2nd, 2009 CANBERRA - While Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has publicly reassured India that Australia is not racist and will take adequate steps to ensure the safety of Indian students in Australia, the country's Trade Minister has described the attacks as bad news for the Australian education sector. Trade Minister, Simon Crean, said the violence was threatening the lucrative foreign student sector.
Indian students are Australia's third largest export income earnerApril 3rd, 2009 MELBOURNE - With India projected to be the fifth-largest consumer market by 2025, Australian-trained Indian graduates and skilled workers represent a future trade and investment bonanza as they return home to jobs in the business and government sector. Indian students now make up almost 18 per cent of Australia's total foreign student population, the second largest group after China, which represents 23.5 per cent of the total foreign student body.
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June 1st, 2009 at 5:33 am
It is with great trepidation that I see this racial abuse of Indian citizens. Kindly go through the following comments:
1. Australia earns a lot from Indian and students from other countries. Please go through the following data, taken from Oz websites “Students spent …. $6.4 billion, on education …It is estimated to have generated just over 122,000 FTE positions in the Australian economy in 2007-08, with 33,482 of these being in the education sector. Total student related expenditure (spending by students and visiting friends and relatives) generates a total of 126,240 FTE positions” (http://globalhighered.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/theaustralianeducationsectorandtheeconomiccontributionofinternationalstudents-2461.pdf)
Before any of you people start shouting saying that you don’t care less, pl understand the difference between what is just and sensible and what is plain pig headedness. About 126, 240 full time equivalent jobs are at stake here. Aussie people work these jobs, with families and kids to support. In this recession time, these jobs mean survival or death for an Aussie parent.
2. Supporting the drug addicts who stab and steal and who unfortunately are Aussie citizens is not morally justified and this is not being patriotic.
3. It does not make sense to jeopardise these jobs, all because some drugged and boozed Aussie teens mug hard working students from other nations and who have come to study.
4. The Indian students protested en-masse, it was a non violent protest. This is the way of Indians, non violence, as taught by Mahatma Ghandhi. Why should Aussie hate groups feel angry at this ‘massive display of power’.
5. The Indian kids will go to other countries for studies and this can happen as early by July, when the new term opens. Once they are gone, it will take a few decades to get them back.
I humbly request Oz citizens and their collective conscience to do what is just and correct by supporting the Indian students.
Regards,
Shashi Kadapa