India-Australia Seal Two-Way Student Mobility and Migration Deal

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Mrunmayai Bobade
Updated on May 26, 2023 01:06 PM IST

India and Australia have agreed on Migration and Mobility Partnership Arrangement to foster two-way student mobility. As per the mobility settlement agreement, Australian universities will pillar the influx of Indian students, skilled migrants and researchers to the country. Find more details below!

India-Australia Seal Two-Way Student Mobility and Migration Deal

While visiting Sydney, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced the Australia-India Migration and Mobility Partnership Arrangement.

The agreement will support the two-way mobility of academic researchers, graduates, students, and business executives, while additionally strengthening partnerships to avert illicit migration and smuggling.

As per the Australian government, a Mobility Arrangement for Talented Early Professionals Scheme has been developed expressly for India. The new Centre for India-Australia partnership will have its headquarters in Parramatta in Greater Western Sydney and serve as a platform to connect government bodies with business, academia, and the general public.

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In line with local media, the deal will grant two-year employment visas to Indians below the age threshold of 30 who possess particular skill sets and English fluency without first requiring them to have a job or proof of further studies. Further, it also said that the scheme's first enrollment cap will be set at 3,000 students per calendar year.

For young Indian visitors, the Australia-India Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement, which went into effect on December 29, 2022, offered up about 1,000 positions in the Work and Holiday Programme.

As per a statement given by Catriona Jackson, CEO of Universities Australia, academic institutions in Australia completely support their government's efforts to strengthen the burgeoning partnership with India. She also emphasised that Australian institutions can play a significant part in India's goal of educating 500 million students by the year 2035.

The newly established framework will also make it easier for researchers in both countries, whose work is crucial to a successful outcome, security, and profitability of the two nations, to collaborate more, she added.

In the words of Universities Australia, Indian scholars provided AUD 6.1 billion of the AUD 40 billion that overseas education injected into Australia's economy in 2019. It is the most beneficial interest to capitalise on the fact that there are currently more Indian students studying in Australia than there were earlier than the Covid-19 outbreak, Jackson maintained.

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Education lies at the heart of this India-Australia relationship, strengthening Australia's capacity for interpersonal connections is of the utmost importance for their country and critically salient for the higher education sector, says Luke Sheehy, executive director of the Australian Technology Alliance of Universities.

The announcement of a qualifications acknowledgement agreement earlier in the year 2023 was hailed as 'great news' for Australian international education vendors, he continued.

The Deakin University campus in Gift City, the 'first-of-its-kind' dual degree collaboration between the BITS Pilani and RMIT as well as UniSA's providing of a bachelor of Digital Business in India that was jointly developed and co-delivered with Accenture are just a few examples of recent 'focal collaborations' that ATN educational institutions have led with India, Sheehy said.

Source: The Pie News

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