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The Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Senator Chris Evans, today announced the outcomes of a review of the Migration Occupations in Demand List (MODL ). Current Skilled Occupation List (SOL) will be replaced in the second half of 2010, with a new list of targeted occupations determined by the independent body, ‘Skills Australia’. The new skilled occupation list will target professionals with university degrees who are sponsored by employers and discourage self-nominating migrants such as cooks, hairdressers and accountants.

As the new SOL will be a comprehensive, targeted list, the current Critical Skills List will be revoke It will be replaced by a new Skilled Occupations List of high-value professions and trades drawn up by Skills Australia.
The revocation of the current MODL will not affect those who at the date of announcement:

• hold a Skilled—Graduate (subclass 485) visa, or have a pending subclass 485 visa application and are yet to apply for a permanent or provisional General Skilled Migration (GSM) visa, or

• have a pending GSM visa application

• In simple language its not going to effect the current onshore PR applicants on the process, TR visa holders and those TR application in process who applied for TR before 8 th Feb. 2010,they can still apply for the permanent residency but should apply PR before 31 dec 2012 .

• Those who will apply TR after 8th Feb. 2010 must have their occupation on the new Skilled occupation list(SOL) to be announced on 30 April 2010 to apply for a permanent residency. Read more…

Nepali student in Sydney has been attacked in northern beaches Of Sydney. Bepin Shrestha, a 30-year-old Nepalese national, was on his way to work at Dee Why Fresh Markets in Oaks Ave in the early hours of Sunday when he was attacked and savagely bashed, leaving him with brain and facial injuries.

Mr Shrestha remained in an induced coma at Royal North Shore Hospital last night.
Divas Baniya said Mr Shrestha was a quietly spoken, diligent worker who was focused on the accounting studies that brought him to Australia a little over a year ago. Mr Baniya said Mr Shrestha, who had been living at Mosman, was planning on moving in to share his Dee Why unit within a few weeks. Read more…

EDUCATION authorities are scrambling to place 300 foreign students in new courses, following the collapse of a private college.

The Melbourne International College had its education licence cancelled by the state Registration and Qualifications Authority, forcing it to cease operation, according to The Australian.  It is the biggest such collapse since the failure of Sydney’s Global College last year.

Victorian Registration and Qualifications Authority director Lynn Glover said yesterday that MIC students – mostly from India and Nepal – would be able to transfer to another provider “following the business failure of the college and the cancellation of its education licence”.

Industry observers said last night that they believed the college’s collapse was likely to have been driven by the joint federal and state government rapid audit program of high-risk colleges. When asked if MIC was one of 18 colleges subject to rapid audit, Ms Glover refused to comment. Read more…

Australia, a dream land for every student where everyone thinks of continuing their education. People from many countries come here to get quality education along with earning some money as a part time job and to be independent. They bring the dream of earning and studying with their own earned money and they dream of saving some for them too.
 
When I first thought of coming to Australia I had a dream of earning a lot of money and continue my study I hope many of us had same dream of studying abroad and making good money. Now I am here in Australia I am happy with my life here but everyone are not satisfied like me. Everyone has their own luck and life. Its different with me and some people but some are really getting frustrated after coming here. Same thing is happening with some of my friends. Read more…

Hello, i am Bijay Shrestha, a new blogger in this blogging world originally from Nepal but studying here in Australia. I am a student yet and trying this blog to express my feelings and experiences of different aspects that i feel and see in this my life.

I have planned to update my blog daily wise until and unless i can but no one knows what happens the next but still I will be trying to share everything here from this blog. Read more…