Trade Minister Dan Tehan announces an “update” of the India Economic Strategy, “to make it even more relevant”

Presumably Mr Tehan means now that there is talk of talking about free trade talks, again.

Which might, but probably will not, make a nice change for education – Peter Varghese’s report, commissioned by Prime Minister Turnbull in 2017 was not overly optimistic about the potential for Aus education exports.

And not much has changed since or looks like changing

Legislation in India that would allow foreign universities to set up there and repatriate profits could be coming, but so is Godot.

And as for mass on-line and hybrid learning, which Minister Tudge is keen on (CMM March 31), India, it will be interesting to learn in the update if anything has occurred to improve the chances of Australian VET in India. Mr Varghese warned, “the high volume, low cost model needed for India does not stack up economically for most Australian providers, who operate on a low volume, high cost structure,” (CMM July 13 2018).