When Harmit Dalwadi was admitted to a university in Canada in 2024, he took out an education loan of Rs 20 lakh. He spent almost Rs 400,000 preparing for his travel and stay abroad, buying winter jackets and similar essentials. But the computer-science graduate from Ahmedabad didn’t go.  

The university no longer satisfied Canada’s work-permit criteria. And if he could not work there, Dalwadi decided, there was no point going. His dream of studying at a foreign university was over.

Or so it seemed until it arrived in his backyard.

Australia’s........

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