Canada will allow international graduates with recently expired or close-to-expiring work permits to stay in the country for an additional 18 months.

International graduates who stay and work in Australia earn lower salaries than their domestic counterparts, although the wage gap has reduced since 2021. 

In Canada our entire USP, and our entire international selling program at the community college level, is built on permanent residency transition

The number of students arriving in Australia in October this year was 43.6% lower than pre-Covid figures for the same month in 2019, new figures show.

Australia has raised the cap on its permanent migration program to 195,000 people per year in 2022/23 – an increase of 35,000 – to help address critical skill shortages. 

Nova Scotia’s education consortium has announced it will be launching a new immigration support program for graduates - the first of its kind in the Canadian province.

The government should introduce new permanent residency streams for international students graduating from colleges and institutes, according to CICan.

Canada has announced a pathway to permanent residence for some 40,000 international graduates of Canadian institutions, as the government seeks to retain the talented workers it needs.