I asked about the mechanism for the Mutual Recognition of Qualifications between Australia and India, which recognises that an Australian degree awarded here is equivalent to an Indian degree awarded in India. It also allows Indian colleges, including private ones, to offer degrees to anyone globally, which can then be used to improve their chances of getting into Australia as skilled migrants.
However, there are concerns about the integrity of this system, given that India is notorious for exam cheating. This raises the risk of admitting individuals who may not possess the skills their degrees suggest.
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The mechanism for the mutual recognition of qualifications between Australia and India recognises an Australian degree awarded to an Australian as being equal to an Indian degree awarded to an Indian, including online study. It’s not only degrees. It’s everything from school certificates to doctorates, although some further work may be required for occupations having professional associations, like medicine, although there is no requirement to do so. This is despite the level of cheating and selling qualifications that goes on in India. I await the legal challenges to being refused a job based on a degree the employer knows is rubbish but which the government has decreed is equal to an Australian degree.
The agreement allows an Indian visa-holder to apply for any job in Australia for which having a degree makes their chances of success higher. That’s almost anything. In other words, the vast majority of these new migrants will not work in their area of qualification, which might be a good thing. One Nation opposes this agreement. Twenty per cent of HECS debts in Australia are for amounts over $40,000. Our children listen to their parents, the media and politicians. They study hard, go to university, get saddled with a near insurmountable HECS debt, and then they head out into the workforce to pay it off only to discover they’re competing with an Indian degree of questionable origin that cost a fraction of their own. Of course, Indian graduates can work cheaper than our graduates can afford to.
One Nation will tear up this agreement. We’ll offer mortgages through a people’s bank to young Australians that include the option of rolling their HECS debt into their mortgage with just a five per cent deposit at five per cent fixed interest over 25 years with the homebuyers own super account allowed to provide the deposit and share in the capital appreciation. While Labor is selling out young Australians, One Nation offers real solutions to young Australians. I note in the seconds I have left that every year $11.1 billion was sent home by foreign students, with Indians being the second largest on the list.
Question agreed to.
I think the main point here is wether or not we want more immigrants here . Indians have low regard for women and are dirty bars%#&ds on top of that ! Our country standard of living has dropped and it’s all due to mass immigration especially the rubbish coming in . Stop it now or we’ll all end up in the sewer
India is also the rape capital of the world.
Seeing what is happening elsewhere it is only a matter of time before rape explodes in Australia.
Can uncapped immigration be challenged in court?
Education needs to be free again. To saddle our hard-working graduates with a large debt before they even start their working life is abhorrent. And then to charge them interest on that debt with no guarantee of a job that provides an income at a level that allows them to even be eligible for a mortgage. It’s all wrong. I trust this is working towards a solution – but we need to give our youth a decent start in life – not a start that has them behind the 8-ball before they start
As a Mechanical Fitter with Cert iv in Engineering Advanced Trade. I personally would not be importing any of these so called tradespeople, they are not up to our standards. We should be training our own.
Agreed that migrants should not have an advantage such as this over our homegrown students
My company has been dealing with Indian tech companies for around 25 years – we have reviewed thousands of applications and interviewed many. The results were not impressive. Even Modi stated in the last couple of years that “we focused on quantity now we need to focus on quality’. Australia’s position has not been helped by the “edumacation” business either where Australian Universities bring in millions of dollars via foreign student programs where the main focus is on having most people pass in order to keep the system going. Senior university people and property developers are making fortunes while the standard of our education keeps slipping down the slope.
As a number of Indian tech people have said to me – around 80% of Indian technical people are no good. The other 20% comply with the normal bell curve. Unfortunately companies just look at the bottom line – cheap is good. It is no accident that we are seeing major systems breaking across all aspects of business – including aviation – that is a serious risk. Just ask Boeing.