Government report provides a strong basis for immigration reform

Australia’s student visa system feeds and writes permanent migration on twice the treasury Dr Abul Rizvi.

This is simple REPORT In students abroad Jobs and Skills Australia It provides a strong basis for desperate migration reform. But will the government receive the opportunities it provides?

The execution summary of the report starts as follows:

For international students, after strong work, employment results are necessary to meet Australia’s skill needs in the mid -term long term. This means using the right skills of the right students at the right times at the right time, which may require a closer alignment of work selection, post -working work rights and visas activation patterns.

This is a very powerful expression that both governments and industry should only think seriously instead of focusing on the maximizing education income.

Occupational Safety Analysis (JSA) The report continues as follows:

Data about the ratio of all international students (including higher education, Vet And in the long run, a number of other student visa in Australia is not easily available, JSA estimates that this figure is about 35-40% of all students who started their permanent residence in 10 years…

These estimates, treasure and Ministry of the Interior In 2018, which determined that 16% of international students finally passed to their permanent residence.

Considering the size of the overseas student cohort in Australia every year, more than 206,000 students in the years-2023-24 net overseas migration arrival-the difference in these two estimates is extremely important and permanently important. Migration program. It provides a basis for how the term “sustainable growth” can be determined.

Both the government and international education lobby groups have largely dependent on low estimation of 16%. Probably possible Treasure He also trusted this figure in net migration forecasts.

35% to 40% higher estimate means:

• Net migration long -term student contribution will be higher than the Treasury predicted and Prime ministerNet migration to pandemic levels may not be met; And
• The pressure on the permanent migration program will continue to increase as proved by visa holders (more than 400,000) already proven by their extraordinary savings; Student Rejection in the Administrative Investigation Court (ART) now approaching 40,000; And the registration size of the student cohort; Currently, temporary graduates in Australia and talented temporary visa holders.

Although the JSA report does not engage in net migration and permanent migration program levels, it provides suggestions to help overcome the issues that have arisen from an unprecedented increase in student visa development from 2022.

11 suggestions add:

ReC 1: To develop a common series of targets that must include Australia’s contribution to the total economic activity and its contribution to building Australia’s talented labor in the middle to long term.

In recent years, despite comprehensive discussions on international education, most of the Australians would be surprised to find out that we had not had such a common goal on something very important for the future of Australia. Both the international education industry and the government, “Sustainable growth”.

ReC 3: Think of the entire range of work to run visa road settings for the international veterinarian to enable students to work and contribute to permanent national skill scarcity.

This is an excellent suggestion, but there is no reason why it is limited to the veterinary industry. The temporary graduate visa should be directed to both higher education and veterinary courses depending on the fields of permanent national skill scarcity. This will create pressure to remove the focus of educational providers from lessons that lead to more people and courses that lead to positive employment consequences.

Rec 9: To strengthen the independent assessment of English language adequacy during international student continuity to maximize the preparation for the study, including the evaluation of the study input and output. This should be informed by the analysis of the effects of changes applied in 2024.

The workers’ government has increased the English language requirements, but he thinks that JSA has not been adequately strengthened both at the entrance point and for a temporary graduate visa as a student. The government should act quickly.

ReC 10: Determine and increase system incentives to include work integrated learning opportunities as a fundamental element of working proposals to increase international graduate employability.

Currently, student working rights are not sufficiently linked to the areas where a student works. This is contrary to the approach taken by the best universities in the United States and the UK, where working rights are absolutely limited to those who are connected to the study areas of students. Australia should adopt a wide similar approach. This will reduce the risk of using the student visa mainly as a working visa. Transition arrangements will be needed.

These changes should be applied together with an independent test of a student’s ability to make a course. A solid form Throws The test should replace extremely subjectivity “Real Student” /EM> requirement. The real student requirement is constantly criticized by educational provider and representatives for subjectivity and usually used to reject student visa applications. Nevertheless, these same providers and agents are met with an independent test instead. Go figure.

The United States, England and Canada, usually we have the opportunity to reconstruct our student visa recruitment to focus more on high -performance students by implementing highly restrictive student visa policies with very little logical policy reasoning. Why shouldn’t this generation have an opportunity?

DR ABUL Rizvi An independent Australian columnist And a former deputy secretary of the Ministry of Immigration. You can follow Abul on Twitter @Rizviabul.

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