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December

International Students: The New Skilled Migrants

World Education Services hosted the symposium International Students: the New Skilled Migrants in Toronto, Canada on 4 November, 2010.

This program explored the role that international students who remain in Canada as immigrants can play in economic recovery and sustainability.

A number of distinguished governmental and academic speakers from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, India and the Netherlands discussed the migration of international students and how they are a critical factor to a country’s prosperity and a new source of skills for employers.

Select presentations from the symposium are listed below.

Symposium Presentations

Setting the Stage: Canadian Perspectives
	Global Trends in Student Mobility Alison Kennedy, Programme Specialist, UNESCO Institute for Statistics
	International Students and Linkages to Permanent Immigration Catrina Tapley, Associate Assistant Deputy Minister for Strategic and Program Policy, Citizenship and Immigration Canada
	International Students the New Skilled Migrants Philip Steenkamp, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development, British Columbia
	Implications of an Era of Global Education? Karen McBride, President, Canada Bureau for International Education
Case Studies: from the U.S., European Union and India
	Competition for Global Talent: Is the U.S. Losing? Stephen C. Dunnett, Vice Provost for International Education, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
	International Students and Skilled Migration in Europe Hans de Wit, Professor of Internationalisation of Higher Education, Hogeschool van Amsterdam, University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
	Changing Trends and Perspectives in Academic Mobility Binod Khadria, Professor of Economics and Director of International Migration and Diaspora Studies Program, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Implications for the Future
	From International Students to Permanent Residents: Some Considerations Naomi Alboim, Maytree Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University
	International Students: the New Skilled Migrants Implications for Ontario Ted Hewitt, Vice President, Research and International Relations, University of Western Ontario
	Future Implications Jian P. Su, Ed. D, Counsellor, Centre for International Students, University of Toronto
Symposium Agenda
Fact Sheet
	International Student Migration Fact Sheet