The PIE News

AUGUST 29, 2023

Institutions and agents have largely welcomed Australia’s decision to close a loophole that allows international students to switch to cheaper providers shortly after arriving in the country, but some believe the measures don’t go far enough. These measures put students first, which is where they belong.”

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The PIE News

AUGUST 25, 2023

Australia has closed a loophole allowing international students to switch to cheaper providers shortly after arriving in the country in a crackdown on “dodgy” providers. There has been growing concern that “unscrupulous” education providers are misusing this policy to encourage students to switch institutions.

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The PIE News

MARCH 17, 2023

The UK Boarding Schools’ Association has launched a due diligence service aimed at better supervising the recruitment process of international students. “Based on the information that the BSA/Verisio report will provide, the educational institution can decide whether or not to pursue that relationship.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The Australian Government has vowed to apply more scrutiny to student visa applications and revamp its graduate visa system, as part of the long-awaited Migration Review. The document, officially titled the Migration Strategy , includes eight key actions to overhaul the migration system, one of which focuses on international education.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The diplomatic row which sparked a tense standoff between India and Canada appears to be settling down, with agents saying Indian student numbers are already recovering. Sukhwani said that while there had been a slight dip in interest from Indian students in Canada, the numbers have now returned to 75% of what they were.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 31, 2024

On January 22, immigration minister Marc Miller’s announced international student policy changes which attracted national attention. Most significantly, a temporary two-year intake cap on new study permit applications represents a decrease of 35% from 2023 (although masters, doctoral, elementary and secondary students are excluded).

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The PIE News

APRIL 11, 2023

South Asian graduates have experienced unequal opportunities in accessing employability-related programs as postgraduate international students in Australia, a report has said. Opportunities like internships, placements of graduate programs were mostly offered to domestic students, the report said. So, it is very hard.

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The PIE News

JUNE 12, 2023

Manil is a student from Sri Lanka in Brampton, Ontario, a city adjacent to Toronto, Canada’s largest metropolis. There are a lot of students suffering but people don’t talk about it,” he tells The PIE News. In most communities across Canada, post-secondary institutions only focus on delivering classes to international students.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

by Claudio Morrison and Janroj Yilmaz Keles Introduction A paper for the Symposium on ‘Inequalities in HE during Covid-19’ (SRHE Conference, 6 December 2023, Birmingham) provides new evidence on the ‘social suffering’ that university students endure due to precarious employment.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Canada’s international student program has “been a victim of its own success” and more needs to be done to counter the abuse and exploitation of students, a group of senators have said. ” Canada’s immigration minister recently said that the country is expecting some 900,000 in the next year.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

A number also urge government to make changes that will impact education agents. It says the that government should “accept that regulation of education agents is essential and long overdue”, urging it to tighten regulations.

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The PIE News

MAY 22, 2023

A criminal network operating in Australia allegedly employs migration and education agents to bring “non-genuine” students to the country, some of whom end up working in the sex industry, according to a leaked government review. These stories just keep coming up, students are being exploited particularly at the bottom end.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 26, 2023

Education providers in Australia have largely welcomed the government’s decision to reinstate the cap on working hours for international students, but argue that study-related work experience should not count towards the limit. It has not yet been announced how many hours students will be able to work once the policy returns.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Funding from China “may pose” a risk to the UK’s university system and research could be being “exploited by the Chinese military in a way the researchers could never have envisaged”, a paper from a right-of-centre think-tank in the UK has claimed. The report adds that between £19.9m-£30.5m

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