Foreign Students Encouraged to Stick Around
Source: ACT. Chief Minister. Media Release.
"A contract has been awarded for a pilot program to link international students with local employers, as part of a suite of actions to address local skill shortages, Chief Minister and Minister for Business and Economic Development Jon Stanhope has announced. The goal of the StudentConnect pilot program is to retain international students in Canberra by match individual students studying at the Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT), the Australian National University (ANU) and the University of Canberra (UC) with appropriate local employers. Each institution will focus on a specific industry sector for the purposes of the pilot. The ANU will concentrate on accounting, the UC on the ICT industry, and CIT on Electronics Engineering."