An Australian Schools Guide for migrants – for families, parents and children thinking about moving to Australia.

We made this guide because there really is limited information out there. It’s usually just a long list of schools.

This Australian Schools Guide costs A$ 45 and is packed with helpful and concise information.

What you get in the Australian Schools Guide:

Part 1:

– A general explanation of the Australian schools and education system

– Details about how age groups, single or co-ed schooling

– What are private and public schools in Australia? Which is best?

– The exam system in Australia; what ages take what exams? What exams are reevant for Australian universities and international universities?

Part 2:

For each of Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane – a featured run-down of 20 schools:

– Which are the best private schools?

– Which are the best public schools?

– Which…

Watch UK (or US, Chinese or any overseas TV online) TV online in Australia by using Astrill.

Click this Astrill link to get a 5% discount !

Astrill is a proxy or VPN.

It is super-easy to download and install – just click a few buttons.

Then, you can select ‘UK’ or another country from a drop-down list.

That’s it!

Once you have selected UK, then you can choose BBC iPlayer, ITVPlayer – just visit any website normally.

The website will then see that you are ‘in the UK’.

It will then work and play as normal.

So if you were wondering ‘how can I watch BBC iPlayer in Australia’ or ‘how can I watch BBC iPlayer outside the UK’, just use Astrill. BBC iPlayer or ITV Player are just examples. If you select UK, you can watch any restricted-access.

If you select USA, you can watch…

Some potential Australian skilled visa applicants are still confused by the Skilled Occupation Lists.

This is understandable, because the lists have been changing names and altering slightly for years now.

Currently, the ‘SOL’ has some occupations, whilse the ‘CSOL’ has more occupations.

It is explained on this DIAC SOL visa page.

Skilled visas can use the CSOL

The important point here is that if you are applying for a skilled visa (such as subclass 190 state sponsored GSM visa), you can use occupations which are on List 2 of the CSOL.

So people ask things like ‘why is hairdresser not on the SOL’ or ‘why is my occupation not on the skilled list?’

Yet the reality is that the CSOL has more occupations than the ‘older’ SOL did in the past.

List 2 contains occupations such as:

“Schedule 2

Chief Executive or Managing
Director 111111 AIM
Corporate General Manager 111211…

There are always rumours from scare-mongers about migration into Australia ‘slowing’ or ‘the door closing’ and such.

Yet the hard fact remains: visa grants increase year on year, and the 2012 – 2013 year is forecast by DIAC to be the highest yet.

Business skills is predicted to be just as high, but this is completely illogical. New criteria from July 2012 on business visas means that roughly 80% of applicants who had a business visa granted in the years before would now be totally ineligible. So it is yet to be seen what happens this year and what the numbers eventually are.

The trend in the skilled routes is that employer nominated visas are growing – as Australian mining continues to surge – and the skilled visas lessen, due to the global financial issues and a lack of confidence from people worldwide – as well as because the skilled…