By Ly Tran, Deakin University and George Tan, Charles Darwin University 5 August 2020 The Australian government recently announced it will resume granting visas to international students in a move…
Government records show only a small percentage of Nepalese and Indian students are currently out of Australia and hence are affected by the coronavirus travel ban.
1 July 2020 I International students are not seeking help from government authorities even when they realise they are being underpaid by their employers because they wrongly believe that they…
Desperation among jobless international students is such that a charitable organisation established by one of Australia’s biggest recruiters of international students had to spend cash above and beyond it’s originally announced support fund of $200,000.
By Hannah Soong University of South Australia 4 May 2020 The Victorian and ACT governments in recent days released support packages for international students facing hardship due to COVID-19. Victoria…
18 April 2020 I Only three days ago, the biggest recruiter of international students from Nepal announced that it would dispense hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy grocery cards…
Melbourne-based billionaire couple Shesh Ghale and Jamuna Gurung have announced $1 million goodwill fund for students enrolled at the Melbourne and Sydney campuses of Melbourne Institute of Technology (MIT).
10 April 2020 I By Ram Khatry I Hundreds of thousands of international students who felt neglected by Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s recent statement must know that there is at…
8 April 2020 I Education Minister Dan Tehan has issued a press statement to convey his message for international students who are undoubtedly the most affected cohort amidst the ongoing…
Australia, as well as rest of the world, is currently going through an unprecedented crisis the effect of which will certainly be felt for a long, long time to come. As coronavirus continues to disrupt the Australian way of life, no one has remained untouched by the crippling pandemic.
13 November 2019 I A cursory review of the latest immigration data released by Australian government indicates far less Nepalese students are being granted student visas compared to the same…
6 November 2019 I Operators of a Tasmanian pizza shop have been heavily fined for discriminating against four South Asians in 2016, who were international students at the time, by…
By Ram Khatry I 13 June 2019 As many as 10,000 Nepalese students may potentially bid farewell to their dreams of studying in Australia after the Government of Nepal decided…
22 May 2019: Universities in Queensland are becoming too dependent on international students, Queensland Audit Office (QAO) has warned, with one particular university making more money from overseas students than…
11 May 2019: Australia’s income from Nepalese international students has been constantly on the rise with data from last financial year showing it has now crossed well over the billion…
8 May 2019: Nepalese students wishing to apply for a student visa to pursue Vocational Education and Training (VET) courses in Australia are beginning to feel the heat of recent…
9 April 2019: The Australian government will be providing some 4,720 new scholarships over the next four years to both domestic and international students. Christened Destination Australia, these new scholarships…
Ram Khatry I 5 April 2019: Are you an international student or any other visa holder having to put up with illegal pay rate without proper loadings and yet keep…
By Ram Khatry 26 March 2019 International students from Nepal seem to favour New South Wales more than any other states when they decide to come to Australia for higher…
23 March 2019: Amid regular news reports and stormy social media posts highlighting Nepalese students’ miseries as they pursue higher education in Australia, the Embassy of Nepal has invited some…
