New Delhi: Indian students who wish to work after their studies in the UK will now need to apply for a job with a licensed Tire 2 sponsor, the government said on Wednesday. In a written reply in Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Human resource Development D Purandeswari said the Post-Study Work visa, which earlier allowed students to work in the UK for two years after they completed their...
12:17 AM, Apr 26, 2012
London: The United Kingdom may reconsider the cancellation of post-study visas for Indian students. It has just been a fortnight since the UK cancelled post-study visas. Senior British ministers are reported to have given out an assurance that they will consider post-study work for Indian students. The post-study work route, which was closed from April 6 is most likely to be made more flexible for Indian students. There was sharp...
04:33 PM, Apr 17, 2012
Melbourne: An Australian court on Tuesday rejected an appeal of the Melbourne teenager who was sentenced to 13 years in jail for killing Indian student Nitin Garg, a crime which outraged public opinion in India and put the bilateral relations under stress. The teenager, who was 15-year-old at the time of incident in 2010, had appealed claiming the sentence was 'manifestly excessive', given his extreme youth, guilty plea and unintentional...
11:10 AM, Apr 17, 2012
London: A facility that allowed Indian students to work in the UK for two years after their courses are over will be closed from Friday as part of the Cameron governments drive to cut migration, which may put-off those aspiring to study in the UK. Under the Tier 1 (Post-study work) route, Indian and other non-EU students were able to take up work for two years here after the completion...
07:04 AM, Apr 06, 2012
New Delhi: Over 80 per cent of students in schools across the country are humiliated by teachers who tell them that they are not capable of learning, a study conducted by national child rights body has said. Even the "cruel practice" of giving electric shocks finds a mention in the yet-to-be released study on the practice of corporal punishment brought out by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights...
10:44 AM, Mar 04, 2012
Dubai: Students of an Indian school in Bahrain will soon get the world's cheapest tablet computer 'Aakash', developed by India's Human Resources Development Ministry. Class 12 students of the Indian School Bahrain will get a tablet each soon, executive committee chairman of the school Abraham John has said. He said that about 600 Aakash laptops will be made available to the students. "Students will be able to enhance their knowledge,...
01:18 PM, Feb 21, 2012
Tezpur: Over 16 million children are not attending schools in the country and the government has taken all possible steps to make them literate within this decade, Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal on Friday said. "Globalisation has led to much improvement in the field of education and the country is ready to compete with the rest of the world, but we cannot ignore the many children who are...
08:56 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Washington: The United States has assured India that it was 'continuing to work' on the issue of hundreds of Indian students affected by the 'horrible visa scam' by California based 'sham' Tri-Valley University. Some 85 per cent of over 1500 TVU students were Indian, mostly from Andhra Pradesh. US authorities are reviewing a letter sent by the Indian Ambassador Nirupama Rao to the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asking that...
11:10 AM, Oct 27, 2011
New Delhi: The fate of more than 600 students from India and the subcontinent hangs in the balance after the Pune-based Tasmac Group closed its business school in London on Friday. "We don't have any more money to give to other colleges. We don't know if they will even change our visa," said a student. The college declared bankruptcy and folded operations without warning. With this the visas of the...
09:26 AM, Oct 11, 2011
Melbourne: Witnessing a steep decline in foreigners' enrolment in its universities, Australia on Thursday announced that it would relax some visa requirements to win back overseas students, including Indians. The new changes, expected to be enforced from the second semester of 2012 in the Australian universities, follow a review of the student visa programme led by ex-New South Wales government minister Michael Knight. Under the new rules, the financial requirements...
04:29 PM, Sep 22, 2011
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12:41 PM, Aug 27, 2011
New Delhi: The US has alerted Indian students planning to go to America about the existence of visa fraud rings and fraudulent document vendors. This in the wake of a raid on yet another US university on the alleged charges of visa fraud. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Immigration authorities raided the University of Northern Virginia (UNVA) on Thursday and has accused it of enrolling more foreign students...
11:41 AM, Jul 30, 2011
Washington: As another US university came under the scanner, the United States asked Indian students to be alert to the existence of 'predatory visa fraud rings and fraudulent document vendors'. "We are looking into this matter, we're following the case closely, and we're in communication with the Government of India officials on it," State Department spokesman Mark Toner said on Friday, a day after a raid on the University of...
09:31 AM, Jul 30, 2011
Washington: More than 50 per cent of the Indian students hit by the closure of California-based Tri Valley University are at various stages of processing for the reinstatement of their visa status. Indian mission has been informed by the US authorities that more than 50 per cent of the students were at various stages of processing for reinstatement, embassy's spokesman Virander Paul said. Encouraged by the development, Indian Embassy has...
08:55 AM, Mar 04, 2011
New Delhi: There is some relief in sight for 690 Indian students - victims of the Tri Valley University. They can now apply for reinstatement of their visas making them eligible for other universities. The students have applied for reinstatement of their visas which will happen in about two weeks time. The students will now be eligible to apply in other US universities. The US government has been sensitised to...
07:24 AM, Mar 03, 2011
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