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campus review比较侧重在本地教育和移民政策对本地影响的消息上
也是一个反馈媒体对移民政策变化的窗口
New migration list doesn’t resolve uncertainty
The new migration skills list has finally been released – but the jury’s still out on what it means.
The new skilled occupation list (SOL), which outlines the occupations to be considered under the general skilled migration (GSM) program from July, won’t do much to resolve the uncertainty for would-be international students – because the government is still deciding how many if any migration points these occupations will attract. （跟PT没有关系了，专业分数是另外的）
Maurene Horder, CEO of the Migration Institute of Australia (MIA), welcomed the new list “following months of nervous anticipation, including a missed 30 April deadline”.
“Unfortunately this list is just one element of coming GSM changes by the Commonwealth. We are still waiting on a new points test to accompany it,” she said.（这种说法是 coming changes，PT会跟着SOL一起，不过一样没有明确时间）
The “new and more targeted” SOL was promised by immigration minister Chris Evans in February as part of reforms to make the GSM more responsive to labour market demands, and to address migration-fuelled distortions of international education.
The reforms included the immediate scrapping of the migration occupations in demand list (MODL) and the phasing out of the critical skills list（个人觉得，71直接删除CSL，就不算phase out,看移民局下一步动作了）, which had effectively replaced the MODL in determining the occupations targeted by overseas students hoping to migrate to Australia.
Evans said the latest list would be a cut-down version of the original SOL, which listed over 400 occupations theoretically eligible for skilled migration. Would-be migrants will have to nominate occupations on the new SOL – now reduced to 181 occupations (CR, 24.05.10) – if they apply for GSM visas from July.
The exceptions may be GSM applicants who’ve managed to secure sponsorship from employers or state or territory governments. Their occupations won’t have to be on the SOL if they’re included in state migration plans. But the states and territories have only just started developing these plans, in accordance with a vague – and highly unlikely – mid-year deadline.
Would-be applicants studying occupations on the new SOL now know they’ve made it past first base, and won’t necessarily need to be sponsored. But they don’t know much more than that, because the points test – which previously awarded applicants with specialised occupations up to 60 of the 120 points they needed to qualify for GSM – is also being reviewed.
A discussion paper released on 12 February raised the possibility that specialised occupations wouldn’t earn any migration points at all (CR online 22.02.10).
（如果最终稿，专业没有分数的话，那么说明PT 71一定会出无疑了）
Responses to the paper were due on 12 March but the government hasn’t given any indication when it will announce the results of the review or any changes stemming from it.
Education commentators have applauded Evans for reforming the old GSM system and addressing unsavoury aspects of the education-migration nexus. But there’s growing concern that the slow pace and lingering uncertainty of the reforms has contributed to a slump in new overseas enrolments, particularly with English language colleges.
Most recently, The Australian reported that student applications to the key agent IDP had slumped 40 per cent in April alone.
Australian Council for Private Education and Training CEO Andrew Smith told ABC Radio that uncertainty and continual change in immigration policy were hurting Australia’s reputation and causing students to look to other countries.
“We are seen as having an unstable policy environment and it means that investment is being made elsewhere,” he said.
In a submission on the points test review, Universities Australia warned the immigration department that the “quality linkage between education and migration” needed to be maintained.
“To do otherwise is to short-change Australia’s universities and to hand global markets in this field to the growing competition from Europe, North America and Asia,” it said.
Horder said the ongoing uncertainty left would-be migrants, agents and international education providers stuck in the “old runaround”.
“The purpose of this new list is to make a significant impact on the number and makeup of migrants to Australia, and it will. It significantly impacts potential migrants, our higher education sector and areas across Australia suffering from acute skills shortages. What we don’t know yet is how negative that impact will be.”
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发表于 25-5-2010 19:53:28
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发表于 25-5-2010 20:11:59
楼上的，这个不是官方说法啊
