Education | Consul wants to bring more Indian students to Macau

Representatives of the Indian Consulate General have expressed their desire to encourage more Indian students to study in Macau, and that they are currently conducting talks with the University of Macau to achieve this end.
“We have just started a relationship with the University of Macau and we have a group of schoolteachers also visiting the University of Macau.  Very soon we will also have Indian kids coming [to] study here, maybe during the next academic year,” Indian consul (Consular & Education) Ravi Sinha told TDM.
Sinha also said that since it has become easier for Macau residents to visit India, the number of outbound tourists visiting the South Asian country has increased.
Residents of Macau have been able to apply online for Indian visas since July last year. Consequently, they are no longer required to visit the Consulate General of India in Hong Kong to apply for a tourist visa.
“What you need to do is to go online, apply for a visa and we’ll send you what we call visa authorization, which is as good as a visa in the sense that as soon as you land in India, with visa authorization, you automatically get a visa on arrival,” explained Sinha.
The University of Macau told TDM that there is currently only one Indian exchange student at the institution.  However, they confirmed that they are looking forward to receiving more applications in the future.
The university has also started a recruitment scheme for potential students hailing from India. UM adds that the recruitment scheme complements the institution’s globalization strategy. Staff reporter