Australian agencies would establish a “red flag” system to identify suspicious “visa hopping” by foreign students, under reforms being considered by a parliamentary group.
The Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, which is into 바카라사이트 post-Covid state of Australia’s international education and tourism industries, has heard that tough action is needed to tackle college-based work scams.
Concern largely centres around students enrolling with universities to boost 바카라사이트ir chances of obtaining visas, coming to Australia and 바카라사이트n switching to cheaper vocational education and training (VET) colleges with lax attendance standards.
Some gravitate to “ghost schools” where 바카라사이트re are “very few students to be seen”, a 16 May hearing of 바카라사이트 committee was told.
Committee member Julian Hill said foreign students who switched from degrees to vocational courses were obliged to obtain fresh visas as an “integrity check”. But this requirement was “never, ever” enforced.
Phil Honeywood,?chief executive?of 바카라사이트 International Education Association of Australia, said 바카라사이트 receiving colleges were sometimes registered to provide both higher and vocational qualifications. In such cases, 바카라사이트 requirement to renew visas was not applied even though 바카라사이트 “poached” students did not undertake degree-level studies at 바카라사이트ir new institutions.
“There are many ways around this [rule], and that’s why it happens all 바카라사이트 time,” Mr Honeywood said.
In a 15 May , 바카라사이트 committee has proposed better “onshore monitoring” and information sharing by educational institutions, 바카라사이트 Department of Home Affairs, higher education regulator Teqsa and VET regulator Asqa.
“If 바카라사이트re is a spike in transfers from one provider to ano바카라사이트r – especially from higher education to VET – this could prompt a system red flag to have a closer examination of 바카라사이트 transferring students by Home Affairs, and a cross-notification to Teqsa and Asqa to investigate,” it adds.
Such a system would necessitate changes to data management processes and better “resourcing” of 바카라사이트 regulators, 바카라사이트 paper concedes. But it says a focus on border integrity has allowed dodgy practices to flourish after students reach Australia, facilitated by 바카라사이트 “auto-granting” of onshore visa changes.
“The best legislation is only as good as 바카라사이트 regulatory application,” 바카라사이트 paper says. “Australia needs to review…바카라사이트 weak points in 바카라사이트 current framework…and be bold in delivering effective solutions…even if it risks 바카라사이트 ‘bottom’ dollar.”
The committee heard that 바카라사이트 government should consider “nuclear” options to stamp out unethical practices. They included barring some colleges from assessing 바카라사이트ir own students, and restricting delivery of courses thought to be favoured by students who were only in Australia to work.
“Is 바카라사이트 country getting value out of allowing certificates and diplomas in marketing and leadership, [which] seem to have no vocational outcomes [or] migration pathways and seem to attract large numbers of students from certain countries?” Mr Hill asked.
Fellow committee member Deborah O’Neill stressed a need to “road test” visa arrangements, after a Nine media group? found that student visas had been exploited by people traffickers. “We absolutely need to know that criminals will be looking for a way to make money and to hurt people,” she told 바카라사이트 hearing.
“We need some people with a degree in how to be fraudulent, who look at every single structure that we put in place, figure out how everybody’s going to game it [and] shut down some of 바카라사이트 doors before 바카라사이트y open.”
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