Australia looks forward to more Indian students
New Delhi, India - The Australian High Commissioner to India, Philip Green on Tuesday said that he is looking forward to having more Indian students coming to Australia next year for their education.
The High Commissioner said that it is wrong to say that there’s been a surge in visa rejections of Indian students by Australian universities as reported by some media recently, and that they are giving a rethink to their higher education plans.
He stressed the fact that the statistics have been seen by himself, and underlined that ‘they are very similar this year to what they were last year’ and that ‘there hasn’t been a surge in rejection of students’.
“There has not been a surge in rejection of students. I have looked at these statistics myself and they are very similar to this year to what they were last year. Unlike some other countries, Australia has not put a cap on the number of foreign students coming to our country. Yes, we want to make sure that students coming forward from reputable institutions will have a good experience in Australia,” said Envoy Green during an interview with ANI.
“We make apologies for the fact that we want good students and we want to make sure that they are paired with the right courses. This is utterly wrong to say that there has been a surge in rejections; we look forward to as many or perhaps even more Indian students coming to Australia in the next year,” he added.
Lauding the cooperation between India and Australia in the field of Education and skill development, the High Commissioner hailed the Australian university’s foreign branch opening in India which marked the first time a foreign university opened its campus in India.
The country’s Deakin University earlier inaugurated its branch campus in GIFT City, Gujarat. “A large number of Indians choose to come to Australia as part of their education, and we normally work on that, and there will be more of it,” Green said.