会计也许很快就不能移民了

外面的风

Change in migration list adds up to fear

    by: John Ross
    From: The Australian
    January 23, 2013 12:00AM

  

UNIVERSITIES fear another crash in international enrolments as a debate rages about whether accountants should stay on a key migration priority list.

The federal government and the Finance Sector Union say Australia is awash with overseas-born accountants.

They say the profession should be removed from the 192-strong Skilled Occupation List, which governs eligibility for independent skilled migration.

But accountancy bodies say demand for accountants is outstripping supply, while institutions fear the move could jeopardise up to $2.5 billion in revenue.

They fear a re-run of 2009, when skilled migration reforms precipitated a downturn that has stripped $3bn a year from education exports.

Latest figures suggest about 28,000 foreigners study accountancy at degree level, representing 12 per cent of about 230,000 overseas higher education enrolments.
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But the International Education Association of Australia said far more were at risk.

It said accountancy was effectively interchangeable with the broader field of management and commerce, which attracts one in two international higher education students.

"Many segue into accounting once they find their feet and work out the finance and tax systems," said IEAA executive director Phil Honeywood.

"Accounting is the professional end game of a business degree."

With international higher education tuition fees totalling $5bn a year, accountancy alone could be bringing in between $600 million and $2.5bn in fees.

The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations said qualified accountants are in surplus and that all three categories - general, management and taxation accountants - should be removed from the Skilled Occupation List.

"Employer sponsored migration is more appropriate to meet labour market needs," it said.

Mr Honeywood said the move would create "enormous perception problems. It will indicate that Australia doesn't need any more accountants.

"Students who had hoped to get employer sponsorship will no longer see us as a study destination."

Monash University demographer Bob Birrell said Australia hosted about 60,000 25 to 34-year-old foreigners with management and commerce degrees. Just 30 per cent worked in management or professional positions, compared to 67 per cent of their domestic equivalents.

"We do have a very substantial stock of these people in Australia," he said.

Tomorrow bureaucrats, the FSU, business deans, private colleges, peak industry bodies and representatives of the big four accountancy firms will thrash the issue out at a Canberra focus group convened by the Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency.

AWPA reviews the Skilled Occupation List annually and proposes changes to the federal government.

It has flagged accounting as an occupation being considered for removal.

It expects to forward its advice to the Immigration Minister in March or April, with the new list likely to apply from early July. AWPA chief executive Robin Shreeve said people shouldn't jump to conclusions about the new list. "We put a lot of research into this and we do a lot of data mining," he said.

Mr Shreeve said tomorrow's meeting demonstrated that AWPA had an open mind and was "exploring every avenue".

今天早上就看到了，等明天堪培拉开会的结果吧。

你晚了一步，我先转了这条新闻

syqwin 发表于 2013-1-23 22:41
你晚了一步，我先转了这条新闻

我是懒得转了，关心移民政策的人肯定回去滴答看的。

syqwin 发表于 2013-1-23 22:41
你晚了一步，我先转了这条新闻

但是你没有分析原文 呵呵

Dickson_Bao 发表于 2013-1-23 21:43
我是懒得转了，关心移民政策的人肯定回去滴答看的。

嘎嘎～我这是职业病，见谅啦～～～

syqwin 发表于 2013-1-23 22:46
嘎嘎～我这是职业病，见谅啦～～～

啥职业？ 哥们

外面的风 发表于 2013-1-23 21:46
但是你没有分析原文 呵呵

呵呵，The Australian的新闻稿向来是写的极其专业，专业的令人发指，随便一篇拿到课堂上都是很好的范例。比某集团写的某奶粉事件的新闻稿要强100倍不止啊～

你看这heading，简洁明了，提领全文，而且结构工整，不超过25个词（22词）。基本不用往下看了，这篇稿子至少是个D。

往下的内容就没什么必要分析了，看作者这刀笔，应该是个资深的澳洲留学业记者。

外面的风 发表于 2013-1-23 21:47
啥职业？ 哥们

灌水呗～～～～～～