Edu consultants in city blame the slide on racist attacks & the abrupt closure of some pvt colleges in Australia.
The faith of Gujarati students in the fairness of Australian society and education system has been severely shaken because of recent events. This is evident from the fact that the number of students keen to go to that country in 2010 for further studies has come down by almost 50%.
Overseas education consultants in the city blame the racist attacks on Indian students and the abrupt closure of some private colleges in Australia for the decline in the number of queries from interested Gujarati students.
Further, the changes introduced recently by the Australian authorities in the procedure for acquiring a student visa have made it much more difficult for international students
to go to Australia. Hence, the number of students seeking a place in universities Down Under is likely to fall this year.
The number of Indian students going to Australia for studies had shot up by 164% in 2007 over 2006 while, in 2008, 94% more students than in 2008 had gone there from this country. Currently, around 97,000 Indian students are in Australia for further education.
Gulshan Kumar Pathania, president, Association of Australian Education Representatives in India (AAERI), said that the racially motivated attacks on Indian students had frightened away new students. He said the number of aspirants keen on going to Australia had fallen by 50%.
AAERI is a self-regulatory body of education agents formed in 1996 with has around 160 agent members. Recently, Pathania had recommended to the AAERI a number of measures to restore the faith of Indian students in the Australian education system.
Pathania said the AAREI is working closely with the Australian department of immigration and citizenship, Australian Education International and the Australian high commission to frame guidelines for Indian students planning to study in Australia. Priya Raja, advisor, Australian Education International at the Australian High Commission, said that, in 2009-10, too, there had been no growth in the number of students registering for higher education in Australia. “Student numbers were the same as in the previous year [2007-08],” said Raja. “Their numbers declined only in English language courses and that too in September 2008 by about 3%.”
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