This week Nine Newspapers reported five Australian universities, including the University of Wollongong, are not accepting student applications from some states of India, for fear of fraud

The story ran widely in India, but yesterday UoW stated it, “has not placed any bans or restrictions on applications from Indian students, nor on students from any specific Indian states or regions.

“In fact, rather than introducing restrictions, we have streamlined our application process for all international students, including Indian students.”

It’s a message UoW needs to be heard for a couple of reputational reasons – for a start it has 2500 Indian students at its home campus and in Dubai and may well want more.

Plus, and a prodigious plus it is too, UoW is “on-track” to open its own “teaching base” in Gujurat state.

Guess which story will be quoted by the university’s competitors there.