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澳洲移民部長CHRIS EVANS在印度訪問時，發表了一個重要的演講，在演講中，他暗示：澳洲的留學和移民將不會有自動連帶關系。在澳洲學習，不再和獲取永居有任何的自動連接關系。他還說，澳洲的移民法會做出不斷地調整，從而適應澳洲社會的要求，不會因為海外學生選擇的專業而改變！當記者向澳洲移民部長提問：很多海外留學生通過學習想得到澳洲永居的希望破滅，澳洲政府對此如何評價？他說：澳洲所需要技術移民的清單，將會與時俱進，按照社會發展而調整。

在他的演說中，對印度和澳洲的親密伙伴關系，大加贊賞，溢美之詞不絕于耳。但是，他還是警告那些教育留學中介說：那些打著移民澳洲幌子的留學中介，將會坑害一大批潛在的學生。移民部長大人發出如此的感慨，是因為在澳洲人報上的一篇報道。在這篇報道中，這個一貫風格是語不驚人死不休的Bob Birrel說，悉尼和墨爾本大家看到的印度學生抗議示威浪潮，才真是開始。隨著大量全職工作被這些留學生搶走，大量涌入的留學生在就業和住房方面對這個社會造成的壓力，這樣的騷動將會惡化。

而身在墨爾本莫納什大學的Birrel教授則在澳洲和遠在印度的移民部長遙相呼應；他說，移民部長大人的講話意義非常，它暴露了一個移民部長遠的思考。移民部正在考慮，將移民系統和留學系統脫離，留學這個插頭，將和移民澳洲這個插座脫離。

而移民部長的話音未落，澳洲本土的一些私立學院則因為移民政策的調整而失去了收支平衡，倒閉潮像多米諾牌一樣。就在移民部長巡游印度的同時，一個擁有大批印度學生的私立學院Sterling學院宣布被監管。2009年7月28日，五百名國際學生和35名教師員工被告知這個學院被政府監管。意思就是這個學院倒閉了，政府開始善后了。一波未平一波又起，在墨爾本的國際學院倒閉后，倒閉浪潮已經開始襲擊悉尼---這個國際留學生云集的澳洲第一大城市。

私人教育培訓委員會正在統籌安排這些失去學校的國際學生，試圖讓他們找到新的學校。而獨立教師工會宣稱，該所學校的老師已經三周沒有拿到工資了。

一石激起千層浪，私立學院的問題引發了各方的關注。獨立教師工會的副主席 CarolMatthews 說：政府應該立法推出更多的法規來規劃這些私立學院，針對他們的經濟管理來說，他們應該提供更可靠的保障。這個工會正尋求和這所學院的高層聯系，希望在和他們的會議上保護教師的權益。

澳洲的內閣成員以及國會也開始關注國際留學事務。獨立議員Nick Xenophon 說，澳洲政府應該賠償那些在經濟上受到損失的國際學生，同時，也應該對那些受到嚴重剝削的國際學生負責賠款。如果那些國際學生受騙，他們理應得到退款。澳洲的外長，內閣成員Stephen Smith說，澳洲政府對國際留學生所遭受的困境，不會坐視不管的。對于這些殘酷的剝削，澳洲政府，當然不會寬容，永遠也不會寬容！在這一場整肅運動中，對于那些不法中介，澳洲政府會加大力度打擊。

在這周，媒體公開了大量的證據，顯示在澳洲留學的國際學生被那些移民中介以及教育中介所騙，澳洲國家電視臺在一個專題節目中披露，一些國際留學生在澳洲受到了殘酷的剝削和壓榨。那九百小時的噩夢從來就沒有遠離這些國際留學生苦主。國家教育工會的主席Genevieve Kelly說，現在是時候整肅國際留學教育系統了，整個國際學生市場的管理，都應該被監督。

與此同時，澳洲國家學生工會表示，國際留學生需要一個代表替他們哭訴，替他們發聲，以及將那些私立學院的丑聞曝光。此工會的發言人Stefie Hinchy說，在加大力度打擊私立技術學院的同時，澳洲政府需要給國際留學生一個聲音。這些私立學院在剛剛開始建立的時候，他們會受到政府的監管；而四年后，他們就變成無人監管了。其次，對于這些私立技術學院來說，國際留學生的代表是非常重要的。因為，在這個事件中，該校的國際留學生一直三緘其口。

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BAXTER評論

剛剛看了BBC的新聞，英國也出現了這樣的危機。好像全球的留學熱點國家全部出現了這樣的倒閉潮，其實，這是遲早的問題。當初，當經濟形勢非常好，而工人奇缺的時候，盲目地更改了移民法給了太多人空幻的希望，讓人產生幻覺，以為花很少的錢，買一個職業學院的文憑就可以移民澳洲，而澳洲正缺乏這樣的移民。大批量的學生簽證申請人爆發了私立學院的成立熱潮，也推動了一些大學的拓展計劃。據我所知，很多大學都紛紛在全澳洲各地開立分校，這樣大規模地，短時間內成立的機構，其教育質量可想而知，而管理機制又無法顧及如此龐大的機構。問題開始潛伏，累積，等待一個爆點。。。

當經濟危機席卷澳洲的時候，失業率高企，而移民部又短視地調整了澳洲永居審批次序。很多原本可以移民的職業現在需要需要更高的英文成績了，而一些職業的提名申請則束之高閣，批準之日遙遙無期。移民部的移民政策和移民名額像一個插座，而留學產業則是插頭。當插座沒有位置的時候，會拔掉幾個插頭；而這些插頭一旦失去了動力，等待他們的就是一片黑暗。騎著一匹跛足的瞎馬，向著黑暗加鞭，這句話形容當今在澳洲的國際留學生們是再恰如其分不過了。

而澳洲的教育本身，以及在國際上的名譽也遭受了有史以來的重創。隨著大量印度學生走上街頭抗議他們的族裔被侮辱欺凌，其背后，也是一種無名的怒火引爆的。自己的期望一旦落空，加之這個導火索，其爆發力可想而知。澳洲震驚了，印度震驚了！面對為澳洲帶來155億澳幣收入的教育出口，澳洲公仆們如坐針氈。澳洲移民部長親自跑到印度游說，而澳洲總理則出來打圓場，夸了夸印度社區對澳洲的貢獻。這些政治秀并不能解決實際的問題，而這些問題也不是這屆澳洲政府造成，其實，是由上屆的霍華德政府一手制造的。但是，無論怎么樣，都是政府的責任，工黨政府也是左右為難，里外難做人。

剛剛看了看今天的澳洲人報，這家報紙的一篇文章透露，印度留學生市場已經完蛋了。據來自澳洲最大的留學機構IDP總裁TONY分析，參觀IDP在印度的辦公室的人明顯下降。澳洲將失去80%的印度學生，澳洲的留學市場正面臨著很大的挑戰。

同一天，這位IDP的總裁也在澳洲人報上發表文章，呼吁政府鐵拳粉碎這些不良的私立學院，停止這些野雞學校給澳洲教育帶來的負面影響。他洋洋灑灑的幾千字，被刊登在澳洲全國性的大報---澳洲人報，而這份報紙，是澳洲政治家們每天必讀的報紙。不可否認地說，這個IDP的總裁是一個極具影響力的人物，至少在移民和留學界。

隨著印度留學生市場的迅速萎縮，中國，這個龐大的留學生市場成為澳洲教育機構關注的焦點。我認為，與其加大資金投入去挽救印度市場，不如給一些來自中國的留學生一些良好待遇，以及加大力度投資在治理社會治安方面。栽得梧桐樹，引得鳳凰來。這幾年，在澳洲意外死亡的中國留學生簡直是太多了。每一個都是駭人聽聞，令人發指。每一個都不是最后一個，而下一個的人棺材就在不遠處呼喚著他---請君入甕。社會治安的惡化，而法律的松懈和懲治的乏力，導致了澳洲社會的動蕩，而最先受到波及的則是這些新來的留學生們----這個處于社會底層的弱勢群體。

我早先說過，如果澳洲政府不好好治理社會治安問題。下一輪的抗議示威浪潮將是更猛烈的。而中國社區，這個最善于忍讓的群體，已經走到了忍無可忍的境地，希望不要出現更加令人發指的行為，否則，那最后的一根稻草會壓爆整個中國社區的怒火。中國社區，這個龐大的團體，一旦發出怒吼，澳洲這片古老而堅實的大陸會為之顫抖！

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英文原文

Calls for crackdown as Australian college closesRelease date: 29 Jul 2009

About 500 international students and 35 staff found themselves locked out of Sterling College, in Sydney, on Tuesday and were told it had been placed in voluntary administration.

The Private Education and Training Council is making arrangements to place students at alternative colleges.

But the Independent Education Union says staff are owed at least three weeks wages and do not know if they will be paid.

Inquiry

The country's Senate is now looking into the international education sector.The union's acting deputy secretary, Carol Matthews, says she hopes that inquiry will recommend more regulation.

"It should provide more security in terms of financial management," she said.The union is seeking an urgent meeting with the college's administrator.

Cheated

There were revelations this week that overseas students in Australia are being cheated by migration and education agents.

The frauds were exposed by television current affairs program Four Corners, on Radio Australia's parent company, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.There are concerns about the exploitation of international students, with a number of cases exposed in the program.

Genevieve Kelly, from the National Tertiary Education Union, says it is time there was an independent inquiry into the sector.

Refund call

"The whole management of the international student market, if you like, should be looked at very closely," she says.

An independent senator, Nick Xenophon, wants the Australian Government to set up a compensation scheme for international students who are exploited. "To ensure that if dodgy operators don't do the right thing . . . that students can be assured they'll be able to get a refund."

The country's Foreign Minister, Stephen Smith, says the government will not abide any abuses of overseas students.

The minister said: "Any of these abuses we, of course, won't tolerate and don't tolerate, and the cracking down so far as the migration agents' regulatory arrangements are concerned will assist in that process."

Better representation

Meanwhile, Australia's National Union of Students says international students need better representation to help them address problems at private colleges. Spokesperson, Stefie Hinchy says the government needs to give foreign students a voice as part of a wider crackdown on private colleges.

"These private colleges are assessed when they're first set up, then they are not usually assessed for four years after they are set up," she said.

"And secondly we think it's very important that at these private colleges, it be required that there be student representatives, because at the moment, students at these campuses have no voice. "

Source: Australia Network News

Immigration link in doubtRelease date: 29 Jul 2009

In a speech in New Delhi that signalled immigration would be decoupled from education, and immigration, Senator Evans stressed that there was "no automatic link" between study in Australia and access to permanent residency."The Australian government will adjust the program to meet our national needs and not be driven by the education choices of overseas students," he said. In a possible response to mounting anger among overseas students whose hopes for permanent residency may be denied, Senator Evans said: "The skills and qualifications we seek in migrants will vary over time."

Although most of Senator Evans's speech emphasised the depth of the strategic partnership between Australia and India, he had a sharp warning for unscrupulous education agents.

"Those who seek to market access to a permanent visa in Australia rather than a quality education do a grave disservice to potential students," he said.Senator Evans's comments followed a report in The Australian last week that quoted researcher Bob Birrell as saying the attacks on Indian students in Melbourne and Sydney may have been only the beginning of the social conflict to be played out as thousands of foreign students stay on with full work rights and compete for jobs and housing.

Dr Birrell told the HES that Senator Evans's speech in India was significant as it revealed a longstanding departmental concern to detach the migration selection system from the output of the overseas student industry in Australia.

Migration Institute of Australia chief executive Maurene Horder said that since the new critical skills list had come in, many applications based on the previous occupational demand list would languish in the immigration processing pipeline for many years.

The developments coincide with a recommendation from a conservative US think tank that skilled migration into the US should be restored to pre-September 11 levels to reverse the country's technological skills crisis.The US depends on science, technology, engineering and maths to maintain its position as the world superpower, according to a Heritage Foundation report, Improving US Competitiveness.

But the US suffers a shortfall of 75,000 science, technology, engineering and mathematics workers every year, even after importing 65,000 foreign workers and graduating 60,000 US engineers annually, it says.

In a development with possible ramifications for Australian efforts to lift the quality of overseas postgraduate recruits, the report calls for the cap on H-1B visas to be lifted from the present 65,000 to its pre-September 11 level of 195,000 visas a year.

As Australia cracks down on the permanent residency-driven training market, the influential think tank says the technology skills crisis is undermining US competitiveness.

As a result of shortages, many American companies are being forced either to expand outside the US or not expand at all, the report says.

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