An Australian degree in India can cost less than half its Australian price, as Wollongong's financial technology master's does at 2026 fees. The Temporary Graduate visa still counts only study done in Australia.Read More
From 1 July 2027, eligible students on compulsory placements in ten allied health courses, physiotherapy and pharmacy among them, will be able to receive the Commonwealth Prac Payment. Its current rules exclude student visa holders.Read More
Whether a parent or spouse from India with little English can join the government's free English classes comes down to the visa subclass, and an eligible newcomer has six months to register.Read More
HECS-HELP for permanent residents is limited to humanitarian visa holders and a few other groups. Other permanent residents pay the whole student contribution by each census date, or the university must cancel the enrolment.Read More
Since 2 October, student visa family members can be included only when an exemption applies, and no one can add them once a visa is granted. Families already here keep their visas, and the government says graduate visas will follow.Read More
Sign a lease in October. Unpack in November. Find out in December that the state school four streets away cannot take your child, and that nothing has gone wrong, because the address sits on the wrong side of a line on a map. For a large share of Indian-Australian families in South East Queensland, households […]Read More
Two calendars go up on the fridge in a Harris Park kitchen most Octobers. One is the festival calendar, creased along the fold and marked in pen. The other, this year, is the HSC timetable 2026, printed off the NESA site and taped beside it. For four weeks the two of them disagree almost every […]Read More
April and May is when the fares soften and the reasons to travel pile up. A cousin’s wedding in Hyderabad. A grandmother in Kochi who has had a fall. A school break that finally lines up with a ticket that does not hurt. What almost nobody books around is the selective high school placement test […]Read More
The Victorian Department of Education’s current list of accredited community language schools, dated July 2025 and still the version linked from vic.gov.au after that page’s 27 March 2026 update, covers what the department describes as more than 180 accredited schools. Hindi appears twice, and both times as half of a shared school: “Hindi / Punjabi” […]Read More
Consider a nine year old arriving in Sydney from Pune in March. She has been taught in English since kindergarten, at a school where the medium of instruction is English and the language of the playground is Marathi. She reads English well. She cannot follow a fast classroom conversation, does not know the word for […]Read More
