New Australian General Skilled Migration GSM changes, announced by Evans the Minister responsible for the Department of Immigration & Citizenship DIAC, explained by registered MARA migration agents, while waiting still for new Skilled Occupations List SOL, from PomsinOz, "Agents Only Thread"
Clarius Skills Index of jobs in demand for December 2009 includes: Chefs, Wood Tradespersons, Metal Tradespersons, Building, Engineering Professionals, Hairdressers, Food Tradespersons, Health Professionals, Building and Engineering, Associate Professionals, Automotive Tradespersons and Computing Professionals.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Monday, February 8, 2010
Australian News Migration Education and Skills
Regional centres to boom now the bust has settled. SOME are calling it "payback year", others "the year of the investor". I see it as "the year of the regional centre". It's clear 2010 will be a different year to the previous one, with those who worked hard for not much reward in 2009 expecting better returns. These are the people looking for payback.
Kylie, AC/DC miss out on Grammys. KYLIE Minogue, AC/DC, Keith Urban and Sam Sparro felt no love at the 51st Grammy Awards, as Robert Plant and Alison Krauss dominated while R&B singer Chris Brown ended up in a Los Angeles police station instead of on stage.
ABOUT 1350 Victorian students who missed out on a first-round tertiary offer last month secured a place in the second round of university and TAFE offers yesterday. But there were 123 fewer offers made than at the same time last year. The Victoria Tertiary Admissions Centre made 4412 offers, of which 1355 went to applicants who had not yet received an offer.
Migration has been of great benefit to Australia in the past, and if we are smart it will go on benefiting us in the future.
Skills push to lift growth. CONCERN about a looming and long-term shortage of skilled workers has been reignited by the release of a landmark government report, which confirms that productivity growth is critical to counter the impact of the ageing population.
Kylie, AC/DC miss out on Grammys. KYLIE Minogue, AC/DC, Keith Urban and Sam Sparro felt no love at the 51st Grammy Awards, as Robert Plant and Alison Krauss dominated while R&B singer Chris Brown ended up in a Los Angeles police station instead of on stage.
ABOUT 1350 Victorian students who missed out on a first-round tertiary offer last month secured a place in the second round of university and TAFE offers yesterday. But there were 123 fewer offers made than at the same time last year. The Victoria Tertiary Admissions Centre made 4412 offers, of which 1355 went to applicants who had not yet received an offer.
Migration has been of great benefit to Australia in the past, and if we are smart it will go on benefiting us in the future.
Skills push to lift growth. CONCERN about a looming and long-term shortage of skilled workers has been reignited by the release of a landmark government report, which confirms that productivity growth is critical to counter the impact of the ageing population.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Australian Immigration News on Changes February 2010
Australian Immigration Minister's announcement on Skilled Migration visas – 8 February 2010. On 8 February 2010, the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Senator Chris Evans, announced the following changes to the General Skilled Migration program:
1. the outcomes of a review of the Migration Occupations in Demand List (MODL)
2. the replacement of the current Skilled Occupation List (SOL) in the second half of 2010
3. offshore GSM visas made before 1 September 2007 would be capped and ceased
priority processing arrangements
4. skills assessment requirements for GSM applicants nominating a trade occupation.
1. the outcomes of a review of the Migration Occupations in Demand List (MODL)
2. the replacement of the current Skilled Occupation List (SOL) in the second half of 2010
3. offshore GSM visas made before 1 September 2007 would be capped and ceased
priority processing arrangements
4. skills assessment requirements for GSM applicants nominating a trade occupation.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Economy Western Australia
How the west is run: Barnett bans the B word. WHILE West Australian Premier Colin Barnett was doing his best to play down any talk that his resource-rich state was on the cusp of an economic boom, statistics were not working in his favour. However, the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics data reveals that WA has chalked up four consecutive months of growth in full-time employment, with last month's numbers the highest since April 2009.
Monday, February 1, 2010
BM Temsilcisi Downer, Kıbrıs görüşmelerinden memnun
BM Genel Sekreteri'nin Kıbrıs Özel Danışmanı Alexander Downer ile KKTC Cumhurbaşkanı Mehmet Ali Talat, Kıbrıs görüşmelerinde "önemli ilerleme sağlandığını'' açıkladı. BM Genel Sekreteri Ban Ki-mun'un Kıbrıs ziyaretinde "ilerlemeye" ilişkin açıklama yapacağı belirtildi.
My School Website
Media release My School website launched
The Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, today officially launched the My School website during a visit to Tempe High School in Sydney.
The My School website went live this morning and has had more than 1.5 million hits as Australians have logged on to access comprehensive information about their local school.
My School contains important information about each of Australia’s 10 000 schools including the number of students at the school, the number of teachers at the school and how the school is performing in national literacy and numeracy testing.
Parents and school communities are also able to compare their school’s results with neighbouring schools and up to 60 statistically similar schools.
The Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, today officially launched the My School website during a visit to Tempe High School in Sydney.
The My School website went live this morning and has had more than 1.5 million hits as Australians have logged on to access comprehensive information about their local school.
My School contains important information about each of Australia’s 10 000 schools including the number of students at the school, the number of teachers at the school and how the school is performing in national literacy and numeracy testing.
Parents and school communities are also able to compare their school’s results with neighbouring schools and up to 60 statistically similar schools.
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