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Cooking is all about PR … Nepalese students studying at a Sydney hospitality college say it is a way of gaining a permanent residency visa.
澳洲永久居留快捷方式 留学生改读烹饪理发
海外留学生读烹饪和理发之类的专业以走捷径获取澳洲永久居留权PR已是公开的秘密，此间舆论已经大幅报道指一些私立专科学校已变成“制造PR的工厂”（Some private colleges are visa factories）
澳洲移民部会不会因此收紧相关政策标准呢？让我们不妨拭目以待。
请参考本地媒体的编译报道：
海外学生转读烹饪和理发，用来申请技术移民个案大幅上升。
蒙纳殊大学昨天公布的报告显示，提供教育的单位和移民中介鼓励海外学生学烹饪和理发，以加大他们拿到澳洲永居的机会。
虽然缺乏经验和兴趣，许多学生还是觉得学费便宜的烹饪和理发不失为拿到永居的快捷方式。一但永居批下来，仅有少数人选择以此为业，但他们却可享受澳洲公立教育和社会保障的优惠。因技术工人不足，联邦政府鼓励海外学生如在澳洲完成技术学业，则可申请永居。
由该大学人口和城市研究中心提交的报告指出，去年有884名海外学生利用烹调专业申请澳洲永居，是五年前的58人的15倍。而利用理发专业申请永居的人数也从五年前的12人增加了13倍至153人。这些人数在全部申请永居的总人数中比同期增加了近三倍。
报道称，烹饪和理发大受欢迎的原因是便宜，且容易拿到技术移民所需的专业证书。而移民局并不在意申请人是否真的有此技能并是否对此专业有兴趣。
一名移民部长安德鲁(KEVIN ANDREWS)的女发言人却称该报告是趣闻轶事。她说政府今后会对申请永居的海外学生的在该行业的相关工作经验以及英语成绩要求有所加强。
Call for student visa changes
March 28, 2007
THE number of foreign students enrolling in Australian cooking and hairdressing courses has exploded in the past two years, reflecting a rise in people looking for a short cut to permanent residency, new research says.
International enrolments in cookery and hairdressing — listed as areas of skill shortage and attracting extra points in residence visa applications — nearly tripled between 2004 and 2006.
But most graduates who get permanent residency end up working neither as cooks nor hairdressers, according to the research led by Monash University demographer Bob Birrell.
Published in the journal People and Place, the research calls for urgent reform of visa regulations to stop migration agents and colleges hijacking the system by directing applicants to areas of need, even if they have no interest in working in that field.
"Overwhelmingly, it's a migration-driven operation," Dr Birrell said. "For overseas students interested in (permanent residency), cooking and hairdressing offer the cheapest and most accessible training opportunity leading to the trade qualifications needed for immigration purposes."
Bishop Seo, a Melbourne hairdressing student from South Korea, said she had paid $37,000 for a two-year course but had no long-term interest in the field. She hoped to win a skilled migrant visa before studying set design at university.
But two friends, Liz Kim and Sinae Kim, said they hoped to work in the beauty industry after their courses.
The research says informants in the private college sector claim teaching quality is often low and rarely checked by government regulators.
The number of colleges in Victoria teaching cooking and hairdressing has jumped by 43 and 31 per cent respectively since 2001, when overseas students were first offered incentives to apply for skilled migration in shortage areas.
Dr Birrell said there had been minimal growth in other trades, including electrical and metalwork.
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