Courses in Regional Australia

When people think about studying in Australia, the first places to come to mind are most likely Sydney or Melbourne. The majority of international students never consider studying in regional Australia. It simply doesn’t occur to them, which is a shame as there are a lot of lifestyle and potential longer-term benefits to studying outside the main Australian cities. What is regional Australia? For migration purposes, regional areas are anywhere outside of Sydney, Newcastle, Central Coast, Wollongong, greater Brisbane, the…

Has Your Education Provider Been De-Registered?

One of the Australian government’s measures to maintain the integrity and quality of our education system is to regularly audit the many Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) operating in Australia. The government authority charged with this onerous task is the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA). But what happens if your education provider is suddenly de-registered? This is a lot more common than you may think. What happens next? Whenever an education provider is de-registered it must provide all of its student…

Student Visas – The ‘Genuine Temporary Entrant’ Criteria Explained

Education is one of Australia’s biggest exports, generating billions of dollars for the Australian economy. The Department of Home Affairs views the education of international students as an export of knowledge and expertise rather than an import of students. This is why the ‘Genuine Temporary Entrant’ (GTE) criteria is so critical to the outcome of a student visa application. The GTE criteria does not mean that an international student coming to Australia to study can never settle here permanently. In…

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