Migration Help
17th February 2010, 03:56 PM
Release date: 16 Feb 2010
VET will be the loser from the changes to general skilled migration announced last week. But universities and English language colleges could come out ahead, as the emphasis shifts to top-level language skills and qualifications.
Professor Lesleyanne Hawthorne, associate dean (international) at the University of Melbourne, said the scrapping of the migrant occupations in demand list (MODL) - which gave applicants up to 20 of the 120 points they needed to qualify as independent skilled migrants - would reduce enrolments at VET colleges.
Hawthorne said it would also reduce demand for low-level English language courses favoured by would-be migrants preparing to enter VET colleges and undergraduate university programs. But she said the change would focus students’ attention on the points already available for people with high-level English skills.
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SOURCE (http://www.pieronline.org/default.aspx?page=newsArticle&NewsId=2180)
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VET will be the loser from the changes to general skilled migration announced last week. But universities and English language colleges could come out ahead, as the emphasis shifts to top-level language skills and qualifications.
Professor Lesleyanne Hawthorne, associate dean (international) at the University of Melbourne, said the scrapping of the migrant occupations in demand list (MODL) - which gave applicants up to 20 of the 120 points they needed to qualify as independent skilled migrants - would reduce enrolments at VET colleges.
Hawthorne said it would also reduce demand for low-level English language courses favoured by would-be migrants preparing to enter VET colleges and undergraduate university programs. But she said the change would focus students’ attention on the points already available for people with high-level English skills.
This article can be viewed in full by subscribers to Campus Review (http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14805)
SOURCE (http://www.pieronline.org/default.aspx?page=newsArticle&NewsId=2180)
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