Universities Australia CEO Catriona Jackson says Australia should focus on acquiring its “incredible untapped resource” of international students, as they make up more than half of Australia’s migration program.
“Of those 400,000 international students in our country going through their degrees… only 16 per cent of those really highly skilled individuals stay here,” Ms Jackson told Sky News Australia.
“We have real potential to get more of those highly skilled workers, just need to work a little bit harder to make sure we’re tapping the right kind of people, right kind of reasons.”
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