The IndianExpress.com has this:
External Affairs Minister S M Krishna has said some "dubious" educational institutions in Australia were ruining the lives of young Indians and asked Canberra to come out with new regulations to cover private colleges to undo the damage. He also said "physical attacks" on Indian students in Australia and the poor quality of courses and services offered in many vocational colleges were of concern to India.
"I think they (vocational colleges) are not only bringing a bad name to Australia but they are destroying the future of the younger generation of Indian students," Krishna, who is here on a visit, told 'The Australian' newspaper.
What strikes me as extraordinary is that there is evidently no internal quality-assurance process within the country that monitors and governs such activities. In much less well-developed higher education systems than Australia's there are already examples of much better practice; for example, the United Arab Emirates has a Commission for Academic Accreditation that has been ruthlessly policing all non-federal higher education for almost a decade. There is a very long list of so-called educational institutions that have been closed down, and another list of those who simply failed to make the grade. In the UAE you need a license to operate at all – something that is non-trivial to obtain – and then have any educational programme accredited before students can be recruited.
