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http://www.smh.com.au/national/states-should-be-ranked-on-student-aid-says-report-20120717-22782.html
Each state should be rated for the support it gives foreign students to head off a loss of confidence in the education system, such as when Indian students were perceived as the victims of crime, or when "shonky" colleges were exposed in 2009, a high-level study urges.
To avoid the loss of billions of dollars in export earnings, the states should be rated and ranked according to the attention they give to the safety of international students; programs to orient overseas students to life in Australia; liaison with police forces, and the support of local ethnic communities, the review says.
The foreign student crisis in 2009 led to Australia being pilloried in India as a racist nation. Indian student enrolments have fallen from a peak then of 120,000 to 37,453 in March this year.
This represents "a massive exodus and no-confidence vote", the report by the Australia India Institute, says. The institute is a federal government-funded body at the University of Melbourne and the report is published today.
"Using the same financial benchmarks that defined the program's success, the crisis has cost Australia billions of dollars and thousands of jobs in associated industries," the report says.
While Australia's standing in Indian public opinion polls has since risen, the relationship remains "brittle" and needs concerted work to build understanding between the two countries to overcome outdated stereotypes and prevent more blow-ups.
The report, Beyond the Lost Decade, presents the Australia-India relationship on the Australian side as a series of optimistic starts, lapsing into recriminations, with little investment in long-term relationships on the part of political, business, media and academic leaders. On the Indian side, it sees little knowledge of Australia's multiculturalism and its fast-growing Indian ethnic community.
It also sees a "stubborn institutional memory" in New Delhi's understaffed Ministry of External Affairs, jealously guarding its "gatekeeper" role and harbouring perceptions from past Cold War tiffs and the US's "deputy sheriff" badge pinned to the former prime minister, John Howard.
The study slams Australian business for a lack of staying power in the Indian market, symbolised by ANZ's sale of its 50-branch Grindlays Bank network and Telstra's withdrawal from mobile telephony just before India's explosive decade of growth to 800 million mobile subscribers.
However the Indian firms scrambling for energy resources here have been pleasantly surprised, having been spared some of the controversies associated with Chinese state-owned investors.
Universities and schools are not teaching Australians about India. "A steady diet of cricket matches and the odd cinema blockbuster like Richard Attenborough's Gandhi or Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding have been enough to sustain the cosy view that Australians 'know' India and that the two nations get along fine," the institute says.
"Enough, that is, until the second half of the last decade, when Australia's reputation in India went into free fall after a chain of unrelated events."
The student exchange program is seen as the most urgent problem. As well as suggesting steps to get one Australian student studying in India for every 100 Indians in Australia, the institute says Canberra must rescue the Indian students left in limbo after rule changes withdrew the option of permanent residency when they enrolled.
Thoughts?
Each state should be rated for the support it gives foreign students to head off a loss of confidence in the education system, such as when Indian students were perceived as the victims of crime, or when "shonky" colleges were exposed in 2009, a high-level study urges.
To avoid the loss of billions of dollars in export earnings, the states should be rated and ranked according to the attention they give to the safety of international students; programs to orient overseas students to life in Australia; liaison with police forces, and the support of local ethnic communities, the review says.
The foreign student crisis in 2009 led to Australia being pilloried in India as a racist nation. Indian student enrolments have fallen from a peak then of 120,000 to 37,453 in March this year.
This represents "a massive exodus and no-confidence vote", the report by the Australia India Institute, says. The institute is a federal government-funded body at the University of Melbourne and the report is published today.
"Using the same financial benchmarks that defined the program's success, the crisis has cost Australia billions of dollars and thousands of jobs in associated industries," the report says.
While Australia's standing in Indian public opinion polls has since risen, the relationship remains "brittle" and needs concerted work to build understanding between the two countries to overcome outdated stereotypes and prevent more blow-ups.
The report, Beyond the Lost Decade, presents the Australia-India relationship on the Australian side as a series of optimistic starts, lapsing into recriminations, with little investment in long-term relationships on the part of political, business, media and academic leaders. On the Indian side, it sees little knowledge of Australia's multiculturalism and its fast-growing Indian ethnic community.
It also sees a "stubborn institutional memory" in New Delhi's understaffed Ministry of External Affairs, jealously guarding its "gatekeeper" role and harbouring perceptions from past Cold War tiffs and the US's "deputy sheriff" badge pinned to the former prime minister, John Howard.
The study slams Australian business for a lack of staying power in the Indian market, symbolised by ANZ's sale of its 50-branch Grindlays Bank network and Telstra's withdrawal from mobile telephony just before India's explosive decade of growth to 800 million mobile subscribers.
However the Indian firms scrambling for energy resources here have been pleasantly surprised, having been spared some of the controversies associated with Chinese state-owned investors.
Universities and schools are not teaching Australians about India. "A steady diet of cricket matches and the odd cinema blockbuster like Richard Attenborough's Gandhi or Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding have been enough to sustain the cosy view that Australians 'know' India and that the two nations get along fine," the institute says.
"Enough, that is, until the second half of the last decade, when Australia's reputation in India went into free fall after a chain of unrelated events."
The student exchange program is seen as the most urgent problem. As well as suggesting steps to get one Australian student studying in India for every 100 Indians in Australia, the institute says Canberra must rescue the Indian students left in limbo after rule changes withdrew the option of permanent residency when they enrolled.
Thoughts?
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