fachcha: forum of Young India » OZ-India:Changing relation http://fachcha.com Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:47:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 India-Oz to set up Education Council http://fachcha.com/institutions/india-oz-to-set-up-education-council/ http://fachcha.com/institutions/india-oz-to-set-up-education-council/#comments Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:41:58 +0000 http://fachcha.com/institutions/india-oz-to-set-up-education-council/ India and Australia will set up India-Australia Education Council to bring together government, academia, business and industry of both the countries and to strengthen bilateral collaboration in the education sector. This has been decided in meeting between India’s HRD Minister Kapil Sibal and Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education Julia Gillard in Melbourne during Sibal’s recent visit to Australia.
Decision has also been taken to organize a Joint Faculty Development Programme and Inter University Convention of Vice Chancellors together with the expansion of the existing Education Exchange Programme. Three MoUs have also been signed between Association of Indian Universities and Universities Australia, Central Board of Secondary Education and Australian Council of Education Research and The Energy Research Institute (TERI) and Deakin University.

]]> http://fachcha.com/institutions/india-oz-to-set-up-education-council/feed/ 0 OZ ATTACKS JUST SIMPLE CASE OF ROBBRY: AUSTRALIA http://fachcha.com/leadfeatured-story/oz-attacks-just-simple-case-of-robbry-australia/ http://fachcha.com/leadfeatured-story/oz-attacks-just-simple-case-of-robbry-australia/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:44:25 +0000 http://fachcha.fwebpages.com/leadfeatured-story/oz-attacks-just-simple-case-of-robbry-australia/ An Australian Delegation today said that some of the attacks on Indian students in Melbourn and other cities were cases of simple robbry. The urged the Indian Students’ community to not panic as it is a safe country.
“These attacks were not racial and mere opportunistic and petty robbery and most of the accused were teenagers who took to petty crimes,” Colin Walters, a senior official from the Australian Department of Education, who led a high-level delegation touring Indian cities, said referring investigations.

Talking to newspersons he said that accused were between the age group of 14 and 18 and attacked the victims for money and other costly belongings.

Terming Australia a ‘safe’ place he said that there are 1,00,000 Indian students alone currently studying in the universities of Australia. A lot of steps have been taken to prevent attacks on students by strengthening legislation, said Walter.

Without giving any number, the official said the accused have been arrested, issued a chargesheet and trials are on.

Unfortunately, the victims were at wrong places at the wrong time and the attacks were not racial as portrayed by some sections of media in India, Walter said.

“Australia is not a racist country as we were one of the first countries to have legislation against racism 40 years back,” Walters

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