大批印度学生将不再选择澳洲

TonyLai

MELBOURNE’S educational institutions are bracing for a decrease instudents from India, as three of them report declining applicationsfollowing assaults on overseas pupils.

RMIT and Victoria University yesterday reported early signs of a dropin demand. Both universities attributed the decline to negative Indianmedia reports about student safety in Australia.

MelbourneUniversity vice-chancellor Glyn Davis said there were early indicationsof a dramatic fall in applications from Indian students.

‘‘We’ll know in the next couple of weeks what it means, but I’manticipating a quite sharp fall in the number of Indian students whoelect to come to Australia,’’ Professor Davis said on ABC radio.

He was responding to a question about the impact of media reports aboutthe exploitation of international students by training collegeoperators allegedly involved in rorts and scams. However, early reportsof a downturn are not supported by official enrolment figures andstudent visa applications, which both show growth to June.

Professor Davis said a reduction in Indian students was a ‘‘greatloss’’ for Australia. ‘‘Many of them do choose to stay and contributeto our nation after they graduate, so to lose that cohort is reallydistressing. To lose it because of such unscrupulous behaviour as isbeing reported would be particularly tragic,’’ he said.

He said Melbourne University was not affected because it had only amodest number of Indian students (250), mostly post-graduate students.

The Age was unable to contact Professor Davis yesterday to expand onhis comments. His spokeswoman, yeeyie, said he did not have firmfigures to hand but had been privy to conversations about a dramaticreduction in applications from India on a recent trip to Canberra.Australian universities rely on international student fees for anaverage of 15 per cent of their revenue.

Dr Madeleine Reeve, RMIT’s pro vice-chancellor international anddevelopment, said: ‘‘Anecdotally, our agents in India are telling usthere has been a reduction in demand, but how this will translate for2010, we just have to wait and see.’’

India is RMIT’s fourth-biggest international market. The university has about 700 Indian students enrolled.

Chris Downes, the acting vice-president, international, of VictoriaUniversity, said fewer students recruited in India had accepted places,with 80 acceptances in semester two this year compared to 109acceptances for the same semester last year — a drop of 27 per cent.

‘‘This is in line with trends being reported by comparable universitiesand can be attributed to the negative Indian media reports aboutstudent safety in Australia over the past few months,’’ he said.

‘‘We anticipate that acceptances from India will recover during 2010.’’

The most recent official data from Australian Education International,the international arm of the Department of Education, Employment andWorkplace Relations, shows strong growth in enrolments, particularly inthe vocational education and training sector.

In the year to June, there were 467,407 international students inAustralia, up nearly 20 per cent on the year before. More than 89,500Indian students were enrolled in the year to June, an increase of 38per cent on the year before.

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澳洲这几年各方面的确越来越差，稍微有点脑子的都不应该再选择来这里，只是怕国内不明情况的学生被那些无良的中介忽悠。

这几年，澳洲政府、大学，包括很多中介都吸饱了留学生的‘血’，我倒想看看，几年后海外学生彻底放弃澳洲后这帮家伙怎么办

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澳洲的留学生似乎都饱和了。。。算了~难说也会有大批中国学生不再来澳洲。。。某一天。。。

我也不知道为什么看印度人有点不舒服.难道只因为他们黑?{:4_156:}

我也不知道为什么看印度人有点不舒服.难道只因为他们黑?{:4_156:}
adelaided 发表于 2009-7-30 23:09

和很高调的个性=.=   在公车站跟在KTV一样  {:4_171:}


…………不是针对他们…………是真的大清早没睡醒很不爽了，他还在那里每天都很high的在等车的时候唱歌[还外带手机愿唱的]，我郁闷！！！

最好别来，我看印度人难受，非洲那边的。。。。。
治安的话，英美岂不是很乱啊

和很高调的个性=.=   在公车站跟在KTV一样  {:4_171:}


…………不是针对他们…………是真的大清早没睡醒很不爽了，他还在那里每天都很high的在等车的时候唱歌[还外带手机愿唱的]，我郁闷！！！
敏感字符 发表于 2009-7-31 09:52

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