ANGRY overseas students were likely to take to the streets in protest following the release of the Rudd government's priority skills list, an Indian student leader warned yesterday.
愤怒的学生将走上街头,抗议陆克文政府的新SOL.一名印度学生领袖表示.
Many thousands of overseas students had taken out huge loans against family properties in their homelands to enter the cookery, hairdressing, business and finance courses now absent from the list, All International Student Association president Navjot Singh said yesterday.
几千名印度学生在家乡是借钱来的澳洲读书;他们所读的专业是厨师,理发金融等不在新SOL上的职业.
"I have had 200 calls in three hours. Many people are really frustrated and disappointed and feel they can't go back home," Mr Singh told The Australian.
The government has cut by more than half the number of occupations and professions in the skilled migration program.
澳洲政府将澳洲急需职业名单砍掉一大半.
The new skilled occupations list -- aimed at cleaning up the rorting of cookery and hairdressing courses by dodgy colleges to achieve migration -- had dashed the residency hopes of thousands of students, Mr Singh said.
新的SOL,清理了腐烂的垃圾课程以及提供这些课程的垃圾学校.这个名单,导致几千名学生的梦想破灭.
They fear their family homes could be repossessed, as that's how they got their education loans of $30k to $100k," he said.
一些学生申请的贷款是三万到10万澳币,他们家庭被毁了.
Mr Singh, who addressed a rally at Sydney's Harris Park last June in the wake of a series of attacks on overseas students, said many students felt "100 per cent betrayed" by promises of residency by the Australian government, education agents and providers.
Students were likely to take to the streets in protest over the coming weeks, he said.
在今后的几周里,学生们将走上街头抗议游行!
"The only difference is it won't only be Indian students protesting this time, but students from China and other countries as well," he said.
与去年示威游行的唯一区别就是,这是不仅仅是印度学生,还有一些中国学生以及其他国家的学生!
Immigration agent Karl Konrad has backed Mr Singh's worries about distraught, debt-laden students protesting in the wake of the list, and urged providers to put counsellors on stand-by.
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Are there any proposed transitional arrangements?
The government recognises that the introduction of a new SOL would affect some international students who are currently studying in Australia and who intend to apply for a permanent residence visa at the completion of their studies.
For this reason, subject to the approval of the Governor-General in Council of the proposed legislative amendments, it is intended that a number of transitional arrangements would be introduced to minimise the impact of this change on international students.
