English language competence is central to the employment prospects of migrants professionals. However, until recently, the author believes the testing procedures used by professional associations and the Australian government have been poorly designed and poorly implemented. The article focuses...

Increased Asian student arrivals have contributed to the importance and complexity of temporary movement to Australia. Key issues include the personal and academic adjustment of students, appropriate fee structures, visa arrangements, overstaying, and the impact on local educational institutions...

Following a decade of increasing non English-speaking background (NESB) migration to Australia, including the migration of unprecedented levels of NESB professionals, this article examines two recent studies which report cases of direct and indirect labour market discrimination. The first...

This paper charts a range of factors which have contributed to the growth in demand in Australia for the provision of bilingual bicultural nursing care over the past two decades. This demand has been generated by health policy makers and ethnic organisations, as well as select nursing and...

The past two decades have coincided with unprecedented Australian selection of skilled migrants, in particular professionals from non-English speaking background (NESB) source countries. By 1991, the overseas-born constituted 43 to 49 per cent of Australia's engineers, 43 per cent of computer...

From 1980 to 1996, Australian researchers identified consistently inferior labor market outcomes for professionals from non-English-speaking background source countries. In 1997, the incoming conservative government initiated a major review of Australia's skilled migration program, based on a...

By 2005, 19.2% of the Canadian population was foreign-born, the world's highest proportion following Australia (24.6%). As early as the 2001 Census, the nation included 3,374,057 degree-qualified2 immigrants and 3,801,118 with post-secondary diplomas or certificates. Between 1996 and 2001, newly...

On September 22-23 2008, UNESCO convened an Expert Group Meeting in Paris on Migration and Education – Quality Assurance and Mutual Recognition of Qualifications. The aim of this meeting was to bring together senior representatives from UNESCO, WHO, IOM, UNCTAD, the Commonwealth Secretariat,...