AUSTRALIA BAD NEWS FOR OVERSEAS STUDENTS RECRUITMENT AGENTS AS DATA WILL BE MADE PUBLIC WHICH MEANS HOW MANY STUDENT VISA THEY WERE ABLE TO OBTAIN OR REJECTED FOR WHICH BILL HAS BEEN PASSED IN PARLIAMENT AND TO AFFECTS THOSE WITH MAXIMUM REJECTION BOOTED OUT OF THE SYSTEM
Australia: concerns mount over release of agent data
A bill has been passed by the Australian parliament allowing student education outcome data to be made public which can be used to judge the performance of education agencies overseas.
The bill, proposed by the Department for Education and Training, was introduced to improve transparency between education agencies and consumers, but since its announcement it has faced backlash from agents globally.
It will make public PRISMS data, which rates the agents’ students as either ‘complete’ or ‘incomplete’, depending on whether or not they have completed the course of study they had entered the country to undertake.
This data was previously only available to institutions.
The Association of Australian Education Representatives in India, which represents 94 agencies across India, pointed out the unfairness of publishing this data, as it targets offshore agents without taking onshore ‘poaching’ into account.
Agents around the world have told The PIE News they share similar sentiments. AAERI is concerned about the potential impact of the changes as India sent more than 25,000 students to Australia for the 2016/17 academic year.
AAERI president Rahul Gandhi said that the public release of this data will not have the desired effect, due to interference by onshore agents.
“[It] will not reflect the true potential or the true picture, as the onshore agents are poaching the students which are recruited by the offshore agents… understanding the offshore agents’ performance is only possible if the onshore agents are not allowed to recruit the student before completion of their main course,” he said.
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