Gulshan Kumar, AAERI

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AGENT’S PROSPECTIVE
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Most preferred study destination of
Indian elite class:
• Survey has been conducted on 53 famous personalities in India.
• It consists of Indian politicians, Business tycoons, film stars and
Indian entrepreneurs.
• It includes people who are famous not in India but worldwide for
their achievements, some of the names are as follows:
S.No.
Name
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Manmohan Singh
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Achievement
Study from
Prime Minister of India
UK
Anil Ambani
Chairman of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group.
USA
Indira Nooye
CEO of PepsiCo
USA
4
Ratan Tata
MD of Tata Group
USA
5
Ravi Venkatesan
Chairman of Microsoft Corporation (India)
USA
6
Siddharth Mallya
Son of Kingfisher Airlines owner Vijay Mallya
UK
7
Abhishek Bacchan
Indian actor, son of Millennium star Amitabh
Bacchan
USA
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Some more names in the list:
S.No.
Name
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Kiran Majumdar
Shaw
Rana Kapoor
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Achievement
Study from
Chairman and Managing Director, Biocon Ltd.
AUSTRALIA
CEO and MD, Yes Bank
USA
Rahul Bajab
MD Bajaj Auto
USA
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Vikarm Pandit
CEO, Citi Group
USA
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Ranbir Kapoor
Bollywood Actor
USA
13
Malvinder Mohan
Singh
President, Ranbaxy laboratories
USA
14
Omar Abdullah
Chief Minister, Jammu and Kashmir
UK
15
Vinod Dham
Father of Pentium Processor
USA
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Vinod Khosla
Co-founders of sun Microsystems
USA
Sample survey for the most preferred study
destination of Indian elite class
UK
23%
AUSTRALIA
2%
USA
UK
AUSTRALIA
USA
75%
Source: Quick Sample survey at Kangaroo Studies Pvt. Ltd.
From websites: Wikipedia, www.webindia123.com and others.
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Australia popular with Indian students
• Despite this fact, Australia is the 2nd most popular
international education destination for Indian students after
the United States.
• Australia attracted a large number of middle class talent in its
early years of marketing in India.
• The end of year international student enrolment data 2009
reflects that 631,935 international students were enrolled in
Australian institutions from some 217 different nationalities.
• Of these, 120,913 were Indian students which is 19.13% of
total international students. So every fifth international
student in Australia is an Indian.
Source: http://www.india.embassy.gov.au/ndli/study5.html
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Data for Indian students enrolled in Australia
from 2002 – 2010 YTD
Sum of DATA for Enrolments of Indian students
Year 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Sector
Higher
8,884 12,340 17,870 22,279 25431 26,800 27,341 27,535 10,988
Education
VET
2,245 1422
1583
1967
10,324 27,114 52,123 79,727 17,853
Source: www.immi.gov.au
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Students flow from INDIA in Higher Education and
VET sector from 2002 to 2010
80000
70000
60000
50000
40000
30000
20000
10000
0
79727
52123
27114
1967 10324
1583
2245 1422
8,884 12,340 17,870 22,279
25,431
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
17853
Higher
Education
VET
26,800 27,341
27,535 10,988
2007
2008
2009
2010
Source: www.immi.gov.au
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Growing numbers of Indian students in Canada, UK, NZ
in comparison with Australia for last few years
Year
CANADA
UK
NEW
ZEALAND
AUSTRALIA
2007
2694
23,500
1499
53,914
2008
3250
28,000
3912
79464
2009
5718
57,000
5255
1,07,262
2010
YTD
NA
NA
6081
28,841
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Growth of Indian students in NZ
from 2006-07 to YTD
7000
6081
5255
6000
5000
Indian students in
NZ
3912
4000
3000
2000
1499
1000
0
2006-2007
2007-2008
2008-2009
2009-2010
Steady increase in the numbers of students approved from India (up 11%) in
2010 Year Till Date
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Source: http://www.immigration.govt.nz/
Growth of Indian students in UK in the period
2007,2008 & 2009
57,000
60000
50000
40000
30000
28,000
23,500
Indian Students
20000
10000
0
2007
2008
2009
Source: http://www.ukvisas.gov.uk/resources/en/docs/2958881/visastats2008-09
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Growth of Indian students in Canada over the
past 4 years
5,718
6000
5000
4000
3000
Indian
students in
Canada
3,250
2748
2694
2000
1000
0
2006
2007
2008
2009
Source:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/statistics/facts2009/temporary/13.asp
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The conclusions of comparative figures suggests:
1) The growth in the Australian Vet Sector started showing up from
the year 2006, when a large number of agents on shore and off
shore started marketing Australian Education as path way to
migration.
1) It was focused only on very selected areas such as cookery, hair
dressings, community welfare etc – gave birth to a number of
low fee private providers.
1) They were successful in getting PR to a large number of students
for these courses – and thus the real fall in the academic courses
started from this point.
1) A large number of shoddy agents at both on shore and off shore
exploited this situation and pushed very low quality and poor
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students to Australia.
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Continue from ……..
• DIAC reversed India to AL 4 on 1Sep 2008.
• This gave a further jerk to Quality Institutions and Agents and
helped in turning the market completely in favour of low fee
shoddy colleges.
• Universities and all quality institutions (Government and
Private) suffered as there was no growth in their areas
• The quality agents in India suffered as they could not cope up
with the shoddy agents who were getting fake documents
made for the students for visas to shoddy colleges
Further deterioration
• The large number of non-serious students who have
been pushed to Australia to work and seek migration
became easy targets, which was exploited by the
Indian media
• Spread a lot of negativity about Australia.
• Australia’s competitors and Indian Local Institutions
also exploited the situation and made Australia a least
preferred choice from a most preferred destination in
the Year 2010
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Is it all over for Australia in the India
• No
• Australia is still a preferred destination for Indian
students but there are hard truths on which Australia
need to work collectively:
– To attract the quality students Australia need amend and
made visa policy which is quality friendly.
– Students successful completion of education has to be
given top priority by one and all – entry standard may be
raised
– To rebuild its image need comprehensive awareness
campaigns through out India in collaboration with the
institutions.
Continued……..
• Support the agents net work (AAERI) who have been standing
behind Australia through out its difficult time and did their
best to defend Australia at every stage.
• More recognition and support to AAERI as it is Australia’s
asset and only organization which can implement ESOS in
India.
• Australia remains the most preferred country for most of the
elite and qualified agents in Indian Market.
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The Foreign Educational Institutions
(Regulation of entry and operations) Bill, 2010.
• Introduced in Lok Sabha on May 3 2010.
• The bill seeks to regulate the entry and operation of foreign
educational institutions seeking to impart higher education in
India.
• Would this bill have any impact on the flow of India students to
Australia or Other Countries.
• No It will not have any impact rather it would boost the students to
go to foreign countries
• The Indian Government have no plan or intention to curtail the flow
of Indian Students to Foreign Countries.
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Indian Private Institutions do the marketing on the
basis of their foreign university collaborations:
Indian School of Business is a very famous Business school and it also markets on
the basis of its collaboration with London Business School, Wharton Business
School and Kellogg business school.
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Lovely Professional University markets it’s different tie-ups with
different foreign universities
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The Indian Institute of Planning and Management advertises about it’s international
study tour programs as they know the value of foreign education experience for
Indian students.
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Doubts about these institutions…
• Many of these institutions have been set up to
tap the flow of Indian students to foreign
countries
• The questions have started coming up on their
professionalism and standards of education
being imparted by them
• They would only be able to hold low category
and economically poor students.
THANK
YOU
A presentation by:
Mr. Gulshan Kumar, President, AAERI.
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