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Old Apr 26, 2011, 3:25 am
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SQ421
 
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Originally Posted by sleeplessinNL
I give them less than a year on this route. As someone rightly pointed out earlier in this thread - student market is not the one you would like to build your route on.
It'll be interesting to see what happens to the student market in the coming years as the Australian Dollar strengthens (it has gone up from 33INR to 47INR in the last 6 years that I've been here); and the Australian Government tightens its migration program which makes studying in Australia as a less certain path to Permanent Residency.
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