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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
The UK government to control immigration
This is now quite clear that the UK government has finally decided to control the increasing immigration to the state. Nobody is going to blame the UK Border Agency for the tougher immigration/visa rules that has been imposed from time to time because this is a fact that after 9/11 the UK started receiving a large number of immigrants as the visa procedure to the USA became very complex. The UK has been one of the favourite destinations for the international students after the USA. So we can say that the students looking for their higher education in either state are to suffer now because of the tightened rules for entry to these two countries. The English language and the quality of education in the UK and the USA are the foremost factors that attracted the international students from all over the world and especially Asia.
The international students contributed a lot to the UK labour market but now that the world is suffering from the global economic crisis and unemployment has been witnessed in some of the worlds richest countries (including the UK), the UK no more needs the cheap labour being provide by the international students because its own nationals come first. It is for this reason that the UK government has decided not to allow students on short courses to work for 20 hours a week but for 10 hours only and they would not be allowed to bring any of the dependents to the UK. Secondly the dependents of the student on courses below degree level will not be allowed to work.
The UK Border Agency in this connection says
ӀMigration has brought benefits to this country, but we need to control it carefully in order to minimise its impacts on public services and communities.Ԁ
We make no complaints against all this as they reserve the right to control immigration by bringing in new changes for the goodwill of the nation but we request that the genuine students should not be harassed by introducing new amendments after amendments.
Secondly, we request that the processing time for the UK student visa/student visa appeal and the Administrative Review should be standardized so that the students may not waste their precious time by walking to and from the streets of the British High Commission.
Click here if you want to know more about the new rules introduced.
Note please; here we are to discuss UK student visa only and not any other sort of visa.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
New rules to reduce the UK student visa ratio
Yes, finally the UK announced some new rules to reduce student visa ratio. These rules require no legislation and are to come in force within a few weeks.
This could be the most shocking news story of the week for the students looking for their higher education in the UK as there is no support for the students in this new review but the rules are going to be tougher and tougher so that the international students may suffer and suffer.
The new rules are to be imposed upon all the international students outside the European territory but Last week, the UK suspended student visa application from the Northern India, Bangladesh and Nepal following a sharp decrease in awarding student visas to Pakistani students.
Thus, this is quite obvious that the students particularly from South Asia are to face the new dilemma and if you are an optimist then you should believe the Home Office spokesman who said "It's a general tightening up of the system, it's not aimed at any area in particular."
According to the new rules each and every student coming to the UK have to prove English language skills above beginner level and presently there is no exemption i.e. the level and subject of study does not matter.
Secondly, a student on short course to the UK would be permitted to work for 10 hours a week instead of 20 and bring no dependents to the UK and that the Dependants of students on courses below degree level will not be allowed to work.
This new policy is a part of the programme controlling migration.
But why the UK government wants to reduce the student visa ratio? This is now the most important question click here to read moreŅ.
Visualize the futureŀ. It is online !
Life only favors simplicity and easily digestible concepts. Whether be applied for your professional needs, personal needs or daily activities, you look for such things which is always comfortable to deal with and effortless. It happens with individual as well as with business concerns. Learning can be made simple and less time consuming for students.
In a sense service Industry is focusing voraciously towards simplifying life and its associates. Changes are inevitable and constant. Everyone knows it and apply it on a trial basis to get hold in tough competition. Education sector in India is no more an exception to it. To specialize on students of class XI and XII from National and state boards, this change is very prominent. Turning point being internet penetration, students are no more just stuck to home tutor or self study. Resources are plentiful and industries are adding the fuel in to it.
Computerized learning system where whole of the syllabus can be read with text, multimedia and lot more advanced facilities are growing rapidly. Students are getting the tricks of online preparation benefits. Not even learning materials but also self evaluation, performance measurement, doubt clearing help 24x7 all these have become very familiar to students.
Start up companies and existing educational training centers are incorporating audio-visual and live system with modern communication facilities. This is being set up at individual studentҀs place at home facilitating them with every possible solution. For all India basis entrance preparations, traditional coaching centers are getting renovated with inter connectivity through internet. Here students are updating their all India rankling and preparation status. Undoubtedly this was not the scenario 10 years ago. Conventional study system is facing a downfall since comfort level and competition level gets hike like anything.
Thus if schools and college systems are adopting technology in their teaching method, the days area not too far when those institution will turn online institutes. Students need not to attend school classes by traveling distance. Video conferencing with each student will be the mode of teaching. Projects will be there like this once India gets sufficient computer literate man power and extensive internet penetration.
Revolution is there with whole education system now in India. New generation have responded to the need of the hour and utilizing the best resource available to them. So future is great for those organizations who have foreseen the power of web presence and future communication medium.
In a sense service Industry is focusing voraciously towards simplifying life and its associates. Changes are inevitable and constant. Everyone knows it and apply it on a trial basis to get hold in tough competition. Education sector in India is no more an exception to it. To specialize on students of class XI and XII from National and state boards, this change is very prominent. Turning point being internet penetration, students are no more just stuck to home tutor or self study. Resources are plentiful and industries are adding the fuel in to it.
Computerized learning system where whole of the syllabus can be read with text, multimedia and lot more advanced facilities are growing rapidly. Students are getting the tricks of online preparation benefits. Not even learning materials but also self evaluation, performance measurement, doubt clearing help 24x7 all these have become very familiar to students.
Start up companies and existing educational training centers are incorporating audio-visual and live system with modern communication facilities. This is being set up at individual studentҀs place at home facilitating them with every possible solution. For all India basis entrance preparations, traditional coaching centers are getting renovated with inter connectivity through internet. Here students are updating their all India rankling and preparation status. Undoubtedly this was not the scenario 10 years ago. Conventional study system is facing a downfall since comfort level and competition level gets hike like anything.
Thus if schools and college systems are adopting technology in their teaching method, the days area not too far when those institution will turn online institutes. Students need not to attend school classes by traveling distance. Video conferencing with each student will be the mode of teaching. Projects will be there like this once India gets sufficient computer literate man power and extensive internet penetration.
Revolution is there with whole education system now in India. New generation have responded to the need of the hour and utilizing the best resource available to them. So future is great for those organizations who have foreseen the power of web presence and future communication medium.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Child Exploitation at USC
Just when you think you've heard it all there comes another shocker, this time about USC's committing one of its football scholarships...to a 13-year old. That's USC's Class of '19. According to a report in Inside Higher Ed, the USC coach made a similar signing when he was at UT--Knoxville, and has continued his kiddie recruitment at USC. Here's an excerpt from the IHE article:
The University of Southern California's football team has committed one of its football scholarships for the 2015 entering class to David Sills, a 13-year-old quarterback at a middle school in Delaware, The News-Journal of Wilmington reported. Sills told ESPN that Southern Cal has always been his "dream school."
You can read the full notice here. The newspaper article is at Delaware Online.
How many things are wrong with this picture? Preying on a 13-year old boy is one. This sounds like child trafficking to me; if it had been done over the internet by a skeevy 45-year old we'd be prosecuting him. But out in plain sight, where the context is "education," (and by that we mean "sports"), it's being presented as something amazing. What does USC hope to gain by trolling middle schools for future football recruits? Do middle schools want older men in "coach" getups to start showing up at their games? I don't think so.
I volunteer at a national teen crisis line (National Runaway Switchboard) where I get calls from kids who have been lured away from home by "friends" they've made on the internet. They get sent airline tickets and instructions, and leave with promises of wonderful relationship with ideal partners, only to be greeted at the airport by an overweight, balding perv who loves young men/women. Blinded by what looks like love and affection from someone who understands them, they're trapped by someone who wants them only for his/her own purposes.
Aside from the ethical issue of subjecting an adolescent to the pressure of college recruitment while he's still in 8th grade, how is he going to live a normal life for the next five years, knowing that if he breaks a leg or tears a tendon, USC will toss him out with the trash? Is it remotely fair to put a child, however talented, in this position? And even though David Sills says USC has always been his "dream school," how does he know that it will still be his dream when he's old enough to vote? How developmentally inappropriate is it to lock him in to USC (in theory) with blandishments of scholarships and visions of sugarplums when he should be having fun playing football in school and awkwardly starting to date? How are his teachers going to cope with a young man who seems to have his life already set? What's the point of learning English or algebra? I hope his parents are not so starry-eyed that they'll roll over for this, but I wonder.
What is USC's coach thinking? And what does USC plan to do about it? One can hope that it repudiates this ridiculous and totally inappropriate stab at building a child army as soon and as publicly as possible. If I were president, I would fire Lane Kiffin immediately. But with the power college football coaches have these days, that's probably not going to happen. Shame on you, USC. Fire Lane Kiffin and repudiate this insanity.
And just so you know, I'm not the first one to wonder what's going on here...See this post on Bootlegger Sports from last June. And evidently USC has done some damage to other 13-year olds: See this article at rivals.com. And know also that the NCAA doesn't seem to have any guidelines for recruiting anyone before freshman year of high school, much less make a commitment to same.
The University of Southern California's football team has committed one of its football scholarships for the 2015 entering class to David Sills, a 13-year-old quarterback at a middle school in Delaware, The News-Journal of Wilmington reported. Sills told ESPN that Southern Cal has always been his "dream school."
You can read the full notice here. The newspaper article is at Delaware Online.
How many things are wrong with this picture? Preying on a 13-year old boy is one. This sounds like child trafficking to me; if it had been done over the internet by a skeevy 45-year old we'd be prosecuting him. But out in plain sight, where the context is "education," (and by that we mean "sports"), it's being presented as something amazing. What does USC hope to gain by trolling middle schools for future football recruits? Do middle schools want older men in "coach" getups to start showing up at their games? I don't think so.
I volunteer at a national teen crisis line (National Runaway Switchboard) where I get calls from kids who have been lured away from home by "friends" they've made on the internet. They get sent airline tickets and instructions, and leave with promises of wonderful relationship with ideal partners, only to be greeted at the airport by an overweight, balding perv who loves young men/women. Blinded by what looks like love and affection from someone who understands them, they're trapped by someone who wants them only for his/her own purposes.
Aside from the ethical issue of subjecting an adolescent to the pressure of college recruitment while he's still in 8th grade, how is he going to live a normal life for the next five years, knowing that if he breaks a leg or tears a tendon, USC will toss him out with the trash? Is it remotely fair to put a child, however talented, in this position? And even though David Sills says USC has always been his "dream school," how does he know that it will still be his dream when he's old enough to vote? How developmentally inappropriate is it to lock him in to USC (in theory) with blandishments of scholarships and visions of sugarplums when he should be having fun playing football in school and awkwardly starting to date? How are his teachers going to cope with a young man who seems to have his life already set? What's the point of learning English or algebra? I hope his parents are not so starry-eyed that they'll roll over for this, but I wonder.
What is USC's coach thinking? And what does USC plan to do about it? One can hope that it repudiates this ridiculous and totally inappropriate stab at building a child army as soon and as publicly as possible. If I were president, I would fire Lane Kiffin immediately. But with the power college football coaches have these days, that's probably not going to happen. Shame on you, USC. Fire Lane Kiffin and repudiate this insanity.
And just so you know, I'm not the first one to wonder what's going on here...See this post on Bootlegger Sports from last June. And evidently USC has done some damage to other 13-year olds: See this article at rivals.com. And know also that the NCAA doesn't seem to have any guidelines for recruiting anyone before freshman year of high school, much less make a commitment to same.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
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