Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard has said the country is committed to the education revolution involving international students.
“For the welfare of Indian students in Sydney and Melbourne, we have responded by increasing police control. We are working with the Indian community and students particularly to ensure their safety,” Gillard, who is on a five-day visit to India on a mission to reinforce Australia’s reputation as a culturally diverse and safe destination for international students, said here today.
Gillard is also the education minister and minister for social inclusion in Australia.
The racial attacks on Indian students in Sydney and Melbourne earlier this year led to India demanding protection for its 95,000-strong students in that country. International education is the third largest source of overseas earnings for Australia, generating around $12 billion in 2008 and supporting more than 125,000 jobs.
“Indian students are welcome in our country and this was also a part of the discussion I had with Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal,” assured Gillard while addressing a conference at the Indira Gandhi National Open University.
In an attempt to ensure that only premier education providers remain in the country, as some Australian private colleges were offering sub-standard education, Gillard said her government was conducting an audit to regulate such institutions.
We should deliver quality education in our own country and generate opportunities for the educated. The advent of Internet has cut barriers that existed.
It is really frustrating to see that we take huge loans to educate ourselves in foreign lands. We are feeding the people of other nations while our own people suffer here.
This will be a lesson to nations like Australia, USA, etc which wants to do selective business with India.(Refer article on Australia refusing Nuclear fuel to India) and will also save foreign exchange.
Hope Kapil Sibal is seeing this.
Posted by: anil
September 02 , 2009, 14:32 IST
yes. i agree with arun. adding on, the quality of education they provide is also not that standard we have here in our country. the only reason students are interested to study abroad is to earn some money. they do all kind of jobs to survive their irrespective of their social status in india. this is the truth and so many students are wasting their valuable time and effort in other contires, and ruining their careers.
Posted by: Bharati
September 02 , 2009, 13:25 IST
Agree. Education abroad is great but it should not be chosen because it is lacking here, only as another option. Indians teachers are excellent: just about every Indian who has succeeded abroad has had basic (and govt subsidized college) education in India. Indian students should be physically strong and totally able to protect themselves. The world outside can be racist, hating people because of color or accent or even because of success.
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