Melbourne, Nov. 10: Australia is all set to announce its amended point system that would swap cookery and hair-dressing students with scientists, encouraging high skill professionals to settle down in the country.
Immigration minister, Mr Chris Bowen, is scheduled to announce in Sydney on Thursday the new system that will toughen rules of gaining permanent residency for overseas students with low quality qualifications, The Australian reported.
The new rules will encourage high-skill workers and swap hair-dressing students with scientists.
In China, tertiary education minister, Mr Chris Evans rejected any suggestion that the Commonwealth should compensate education providers for lost income. “It’s not about us making up the shortfall. I mean, universities are a business,” he said.
“The current weighting of points test factors leads to perverse outcomes such as the situation where a Harvard qualified environmental scientist with three years’ relevant work experience would fail the points test, while an overseas student who completes a 92-week course in a 60-point occupation (such as cookery or hairdressing) would, with one year’s experience, pass,” a discussion paper issued by Department of Immigration and Citizenship said.