Australian PM Declares Indian Higher Education Degrees Valid for Both the Countries

New Delhi: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced an ‘Australia-India education qualification recognition mechanism’ on wednesday, March 8, 2023. According to the mechanism, he has also officially declared Deakin University as the first university to set up its branch in India.

PM Albanese made the declaration during his two day tour of Gujarat. On his first day, he also announced a new ‘Maitri’ scholarship for Indian students to study in Australia for up to 4 years. The visiting PM with his delegation had visited the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad on Wednesday.

Deakin University will be the first ever foreign university to have an offshore campus in India, which is to come up in Gandhinagar’s GIFT City. “There is another significant development… we have finalized the Australia-India education qualification recognition mechanism. This new mechanism means that if you are an Indian student studying or have studied in Australia, your hard-earned degree will be recognised when you return home,” Albanese said as he addressed the ‘Celebrating India-Australia Education Relationship’ event in Ahmedabad.

“…Or if you are a member of Australia’s very large Indian diaspora of 8,00,000 and growing, you will feel more confident that your Indian qualification will be recognised in Australia. It is the most comprehensive and ambitious arrangement agreed to by India with any country. It paves the way for commercial opportunities for Australian education providers to offer more innovative and accessible education to Indian students and provide a solid basis for education institutions to consider new ways to partner with each other,” he stated, adding “it is a fantastic piece of work that will have really tangible benefits”.

“The University of Wollongong also intends to establish a campus at GIFT City. Of course, we will always welcome students to come and stay in Australia…but not everyone has the means or the ability to pack up their bags and study in another country… now Indian students can obtain Australian education without being in Australia,” he added.

Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel has expressed in his speech that the Deakin University’s International Branch Campus (IBC) will help in creating skilled manpower which inturn will fulfill one of the goals of GIFT City Gujarat.

Ravneet Pawha, Vice President (Global Alliances) and CEO (South Asia) of Deakin University, said, “This is a momentous occasion for both countries, and we are thrilled to have contributed to two ‘firsts’ in the Australia-India education sector story. The branch campus aims to provide a world-class post-graduate education to meet the industry’s skilled workforce demands within the country.”

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