Accord to welcome Chilean students

July 30, 2008

CHILE will pay to send up to 500 of its top university students each year to Australia for postgraduate education under a landmark agreement enabling long-term collaboration and exchange...

"The areas of interest, in terms of development, are very similar: mining, agribusiness, clean energy, water. There's a lot to learn jointly," Dr Foxley told the HES. "We want to go forward faster into a knowledge-based economy and Australia is a country that has very good centres of excellence in knowledge-based skills."