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At least five Australian universities have placed bans or restrictions on students from some Indian states, amidst a surge in fraudulent applications from South Asia seeking to work - not study - in this country, according to a media report. Australia is on track for its biggest-ever annual intake of Indian students, topping 2019's high watermark of 75,000. But the current surge has prompted concerns from lawmakers and the education sector about the integrity of Australia's immigration system and the long-term impact on the nation's lucrative international education market, The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper reported on Tuesday. "The volume of students arriving has come back a lot stronger than anyone was expecting," said <keyword id="17179005" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="jon-chew" source="Orion">Jon Chew</keyword> from global education firm Navitas. "We knew there would be a lot of pent-up demand, but there has also been a surge in non-genuine students," Chew was quoted as saying. With many applications deemed by universities not to meet Australian visa requirements that they are a "genuine temporary entrant" coming solely for education, universities are putting restrictions in place to pre-empt their "risk rating" being downgraded, the report said. An investigation by The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald newspapers has obtained emails from within <keyword id="212104" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="victoria-university" source="Orion">Victoria University</keyword>, Edith Cowan University, the University of Wollongong, Torrens University, and agents working for Southern Cross University that show the crackdown on applications from Indian students. Those universities that have restricted access to some Indian states are concerned Home Affairs will reduce their ability to fast-track student visas because of the number of applicants who are actually seeking to work - not study - in Australia. Perth's Edith Cowan University in February placed an outright ban on applicants from the Indian states of Punjab and <keyword id="41646" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="haryana" source="Orion">Haryana</keyword>, then in March, Victoria University increased restrictions on student applications from eight Indian states, including Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Gujarat. These restrictions came just days after Prime Minister <keyword id="178055" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="anthony-albanese" source="Orion">Anthony Albanese</keyword> visited <keyword id="3658" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="india" source="Orion">India</keyword>, in part to celebrate Australia's education links and announce a new agreement with Australia's universities and colleges that would, he said, herald "the most comprehensive and ambitious arrangement agreed to by India with any country". Crucially, the agreement included a "mutual recognition of qualifications between Australia and India", which will make travelling to either country for university study easier. The University of Wollongong in March also ratcheted up conditions on its "genuine temporary entrant" test on students from India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Lebanon, Mongolia, Nigeria and "other countries deemed a risk (of students not being a genuine temporary entrant) by the Department of Home Affairs". A spokeswoman for Adelaide's Torrens University said it too was "now looking carefully at each area where our applications come from" after the university told The Times Higher Education in March that it was considering only "very strong" applications from Gujarat, Haryana and Punjab, the report added. SEE ALSO: <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/passenger-traffic-at-bangalore-airport-up-96-at-31-91-million-in-fy23/articleshow/99584225.cms">Passenger traffic at Bangalore airport up 96% at 31.91 million in FY23</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/auto/news/volkswagen-to-bring-its-first-ev-in-india-next-year/articleshow/99584045.cms">Volkswagen to bring its first EV in India next year</a>

Five Australian universities restrict Indian students as fraud applications surge

<ul><li>India has wasted 4.6 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine since the vaccine drive began to April 11. </li><li>Eight states, including Kerala, West Bengal and Goa, reported zero wastage.</li><li>Tamil Nadu, on the other hand, has the highest vaccine waste rate of 12% followed by Haryana at 9%.</li></ul><keyword id="10644234" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Vaccine-wastage">Vaccine wastage</keyword> is lower than it was in March, but it’s still happening at a time when doses are in short supply — and the number of cases across India are surging. India has wasted 4.6 million doses so far since the drive to vaccinate the population kicked off in January, according to data shared by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) in response to a Right to Information (RTI) query. 4.6 million doses are enough to inoculate half of Bangalore. In a smaller city like Chandigarh, those doses are enough to vaccinate every citizen four times over. The RTI filed by Vivek Pandey and reported by <a href="https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/coronavirus-huge-vaccine-wastage-by-states-till-april-11-most-in-tamil-nadu-rti-shows-2417643">NDTV</a> also reveals that the state with the highest wastage was Tamil Nadu, followed by Haryana. <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="Top 5 five Indian states with the highest vaccine wastage" comment="subhead" text="Top 5 five Indian states with the highest vaccine wastage">Top 5 five Indian states with the highest vaccine wastage</cmsannotation> <table style="border-width: initial; border-style: none; table-layout: fixed; width: 468pt;"></colgroup><tbody><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">State </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Percentage of vaccine wastage </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Tamil Nadu </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">12% </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Haryana </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">9.74% </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Punjab </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">8.12% </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Manipur </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">7.8% </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Telangana </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">7.55% </td></tr></tbody></table>Source: MoHFW’s response to Vivek Pandey’s RTI via NDTV The list looks very <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/health/news/telangana-and-andhra-pradesh-have-the-highest-covid-19-vaccine-wastage-in-india/articleshow/81551251.cms">different from a month ago</a>, when the states with the highest vaccine wastage were Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Jammu and Kashmir. At the time, vaccine wastage in Telangana was as high as 17.6% — higher than Tamil Nadu right now. <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="Kerala, West Bengal and six other states have no vaccine wastage whatsoever" comment="subhead" text="Kerala, West Bengal and six other states have no vaccine wastage whatsoever">Kerala, West Bengal and six other states have no vaccine wastage whatsoever</cmsannotation> Eight states were also on the opposite side of the scales. Kerala, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Goa, Daman and Diu, Andaman and Nicobar Islands as well as Lakshadweep had ‘zero wastage’. When there’s a vaccine shortage, it goes without saying that responsible use is key to ensuring that not a drop goes wasted. And the zero vaccine wastage rates in states like Kerala and West Bengal show that the task is not impossible. To boost the supply of vaccines in the market, the government has also <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/health/news/if-you-are-18-years-or-older-you-can-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-from-may-1/articleshow/82147121.cms">proposed</a> a 50/50 model. This where half of the supply of Covaxin and Covishield will go directly to the central government, whereas the other half will be available in the open market to private hospitals and state governments. International players are also free to join the fray with any ‘ready to use’ vaccines. The imports of these vaccines will go into the non-central government route of procurement. The <keyword id="95879" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Serum-Institute-of-India">Serum Institute of India</keyword> (SII) has <a href="https://health.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/finance/india-to-fund-capacity-boost-at-serum-institute-as-covid-19-vaccines-run-short-source/82144992">reportedly</a> received an advance of ₹3,000 crore from the Indian government to scale up production. Bharat Biotech, which makes Covaxin, has received another ₹1,500 crore. According to Union Health secretary Rajesh Bhushan, the issue isn’t that there is a shortage of vaccines — despite what some states may claim — but the lack of better planning. “We have made available vaccine doses to states and union territories from time to time and as we told you earlier that to bigger states we give supply of four days at once and on fourth and fifth day we replenish the supply. For smaller states, at once we supply 7-8 days vaccine doses and on the seventh or eighth day their supply is replenished," explained Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan, last week. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/careers/news/for-saas-y-salaries-indian-engineers-are-skipping-the-traditional-it-services-queue/articleshow/82157280.cms">SaaS-y salaries are 30% more than traditional IT services — and they’re making it tougher for traditional IT service firms to find the right talent</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/startups/news/tiger-global-invests-in-healthcare-startup-pristyn-care-valuation-more-than-doubles-in-six-months/articleshow/82158467.cms">Tiger Global invests in healthcare startup Pristyn Care, valuation more than doubles in six months</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/india-has-the-142nd-rank-of-the-180-countries-in-the-world-press-freedom-index-falls-behind-myanmar-sri-lanka-and-nepal/articleshow/82158331.cms">India still has the ‘bad’ classification in the World Press Freedom Index, falls behind Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Nepal</a>

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