AUSTRALIAN IMMIGRATION NEWS

Australian Universities Key to Knowledge Economy

Monday, 20 August 2007

According to American IT Guru Prof. Larry Smarr, Australia's universities will be key to maintaining it’s high-tech knowledge based economy.

Addressing the Australian American Leadership Dialogue, Prof. Smarr noted Australia's heavy dependence on it’s universities to address the skilled high-tech labour shortage. Australia needs a constant inflow of highly-trained workers in order to keep its economy growing.

Many of the students entering Australian universities will increasingly been from abroad, as Australia's domestic base cannot keep up with demand for students or skilled workers alone.