Universities ask for Post graduate Australian visas
by Guneet S - March 31, 2010
Australia, 31st March: Almost all the top universities in Australia are asking for a new kind of post graduate visa to help the post graduates secure permanent residency in Australia.
Hence, a review of Australian immigration’s skill-based points system is being undertaken by the Australian government. The new list of skills shortage in Australia will come into effect in a span of few months this year.
A representative of Australia’s top notch universities and colleges, the Group of Eight has made a submission on the skills-based points system asking for a special provision for the PhD students in the form of a three-year visa once on completion of their degree in Australia which will prove to be a route towards a permanent Australian visa.
The Group of Eight has also made a suggestion for similar arrangements for post-graduate students. The representative body has argued that if these changes are accepted by the Australian government in the Australian immigration, it will help in inviting and retaining international students from different parts of the world with high-calibre.
Australia immigration has suffered badly due to recent racial attacks on Indian students in Melbourne and a few stricter norms introduced in the Australian immigration in the recent times. So, the foreign student community is already exploring other options for studying abroad by applying for UK student visas, Canada student visas, Australian student visas or New Zealand student visas.
Pointing towards such immigration changes, Max King from Monash University said that considering the current scenario, the Australian government has already expressed its concerns for regaining its lost glory in the international education sector and to strengthen its position in the education sector.
King asserted that unless and until immediate steps are undertaken in the Australian immigration by the federal government of Australia, its education sector will see serious repercussions taking place in the form of very few research scholars including PhDs and post-graduates.
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