New Delhi: India and Australia to sign a mutual framework today, March 2, 2023 allowing the later country to recognise higher education degrees from institutes in India. Engineering, medicine, law and other professional courses have been excluded from the framework.

Australian Education Minister, Jason Clare will be signing the mechanism for the mutual recognition of Qualification in Delhi. The Union Education Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan will also be present at the signing.

According to Clare; “India has other agreements with countries like the US. What makes this broader than the agreement with the US is it includes online courses also, apart from courses that universities in Australia can run in India or at a standalone campus like the one that University of Wollongong is setting up,”

“So it means that whether you are studying with an Australian university in Australia, or here in India, or online, or at an Australian university campus in India, those qualifications will be counted and will be recognised for your next big step in higher education,” Clare said.

She has also commented that discussions are being held on including professional courses in the mutual recognition framework.
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Clare said he was asked the other day whether one can “automatically travel to Australia and practice medicine” if one is a doctor with a medical degree from an Indian university. “At the moment, the answer is no, because there’s another step that has to be taken where the medical profession itself has its own registration process,” he said. “This ensures that [after] this recognition of the university qualifications, the next step is what can be placed into work in terms of recognition by different professional clients. That remains to be done; so that’s a big piece of work.”
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University of Wollongong and Deakin University are some of the Australian universities who have announced their GIFT City Campus in the country. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will visit India in the month of March to make a formal declaration of the campuses.

Clare said Albanese will lead a delegation of at least 25 business leaders. “The Prime Minister will bring with him the trade minister as well as the resources minister. I think that’s an indication of how seriously Australia treats our partnership with India and they will make a series of announcements. But I won’t preempt what he’s going to announce until he gets to step on the battlefield,” Clare said.