Immigration makes new rules for ‘colleges’ and reviews treatment of disability

Julia Gillard yesterday flagged legislative changes forcing all 1300 registered colleges and universities to re-register under tighter guidelines.
The Aussie possie has been concerned about the so-called colleges offering ‘education’ to international students as a path to permanent residency. Holy cash cows tell of rorts of foreign students.
To re-register under the Commonwealth Register of Institutions and [...]

Migrants, refugees, asylum seekers: they make us strong!

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v456/n7224/full/456877a.html http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/behavior/culture/richerson-boyd-2008-migration-nature.essay.html

Playing games with peoples’ lives

While lying on my new couch and watching reality TV (it is the weekend, after all!) I had an idea for an immigration game show – with contestants competing for Permanent Residency.
Then I thought that maybe that would be cruel, and playing with people’s lives – much like the game the government makes people play
I [...]