Australasia

An IELTS testing centre at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia, is to close after an investigation found that test-takers were able to cheat their results – one newspaper report in The Australian said that students would pay up to AUS$11,000 for fake IELTS results – a competent language proficiency score can mean a pathway […]

New Zealand is the latest country to amend its immigration regulations in an effort to weed out migrants using the student route primarily to access permanent residency. Immigration New Zealand has unveiled new rules that come into play from 25 July. In brief, student attendance and progress will be more closely monitored, as will student […]

Reinforcing the increasing professionalism with which education agencies are being regarded, a representative body for migration agents in Australia, the Migration Institute of Australia (MIA), has

The owners of two convenience stores in Australia were fined in April for underpaying foreign students employed in Melbourne and Geelong.