Indian students to advantage from Australia’s new visa regime

The new Australian government is set to Open / Start / Launch / reveal a series of steps to make its student visa regime simpler to draw more foreign students, counting those from India, and perk up the billion dollar higher eduction industry.

The Immigration Minister Scott Morrison and Education minister Christopher Pyne jointly Open / Start / Launch / reveal that the new coalition Government were keen to restore the industry by ruin the injure done by the former Labour government, according to an official media statement.

The 2ministers Open / Start / Launch / reveal that steps would make simpler student visas through a streamlined assessment-level framework (ALF) and by extending streamlined visa processing arrangements to low risk nonuniversity degree providers.

“The changes will assist all providers, but particularly the vocational education and training sector, making access to Australia’s education system more attractive for overseas students,” Morrison said.

“Assessment levels under the ALF would be cut down from 5 levels to 3, while financial evidence for AL3 students would decrease from 18 months to 12 months, provided funds were from a close relative of the student applicant.

This would mean students from a number of key markets would be able to relate for a student visa with up to 40,000 Australian dollars less in the bank.

Streamlining of the visa application process that Morrison announced last week would advantage up to 22 low-risk non-university providers for students enrolled in Bachelor, Masters or Doctoral degree courses or an qualified exchange programme.

Pyne said the actions would attract more overseas students to Australia, benefit our education system, create Australian jobs and inspire our economy.

“The non-university sector is an significant contributor to our overall education exports,” Pyne said.

“These changes would let the vocational training sector to add more to all comers to our plan to restore Australia’s tertiary education system to its former peak of almost $19 billion in export income for the nation.