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Japan’s got a serious challenge at the moment which is the population which is aging and declining. So the Japanese companies are adjusting their strategies to go overseas, to capture the market share in the global market. What’s lacking at the moment, in the Japanese corporations is workers who understand the international market and speak English, which is the global language.

Queensland is well positioned to offer at all levels of education in English and from the Japanese companies point of view and in the Japanese students’ point of view is a great place to be able to, not just to meet with Australian students, but also other Asia- Pacific students so that they can have regional context developed over years.

The Japanese government is well aware of the need to globalize human capital, so they’re investing a lot of money in the scholarships,in partnerships with Japan Inc. and so we from the Trade and Investment Queensland point of view, we would like to bridge the gap between the Queensland institutions at the O-Levels including higher ed, ELICOS, high school, and VET and even study tours with the need in Japan.

So I’ll look forward to talking to you to further explore such opportunities.

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Many opportunities in the education sector for Queensland institutions. We have a growth in middle class in Latin America that is demanding.

They are asking for English and they need English they know how important to learn the language to be able to progress in life.

In VET training we have mining trying to reduce costs to become a bit more efficient, become more productive. For that, the mining companies they know that they have to better train their workers.

So VET training is also another opportunity for institutions here. Trade & Investment Queensland is always promoting education in the region and we can help you.

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There’s opportunities in education. There’s 60 to a 100 new schools requirement by 2018. So there’s opportunities for any of the big brands or the big names from Queensland to come to Middle East.

We can assist with getting you established, putting you in with the right partnership and also with start-up cost.

That’s one major opportunity that I would really like to see come to fruition. We have one school in the Middle East in Sharjah, the Australia International School.

They have been there 10 years and enjoy a wonderful reputation and have been a terrific success story for Queensland.

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As a growing economy, Indonesia offers excellent opportunities for those of you who are in education.

Now education can be higher education, it could be vocational type of training, it could even be high school level types of schooling. If you look at the numbers, Indonesia with 250 million people with fast growing income level, the middle income number is staggering at the moment, 45 million people are considered the consumer class according to McKinsey, and these people have homes and own cars, and want their children to go to school aboard and this offers a lot of opportunities for education sector.

In the training sector there are lots of opportunities because the expertise and capabilities in the country are not quite ready to bring up Indonesia’s skill levels to a global competitive level. So to give you an example, there are numerous mining activities in Indonesia, including underground mining and they are not enough expertise available in the country to provide training in underground mining.

So if you have particular expertise in underground mining, this is something where I could help you to find students in Indonesia. There are other opportunities as well such as in horticulture and agriculture in Indonesia because of its growing economy and greater demand for security of food, but not enough available expertise to provide those trainings.

Gives opportunities for many training providers in Queensland to come to Indonesia to find a new market.

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Another area is education of course as I mentioned in the case study, which was a successful case.

Also there’s high school student recruitment that’s started towards vocation education for instance, like Aged Care It’s a new area because China has a growing aged population.

It’s becoming a big problem for the future.

Thus China needs to get ready for that. Australia has a lot of experience, and the skills and the services in that area from Aged Care.

It’s residential design, to the services provided, and nursing teams, and also the food, nutrition – and a lot of things can be provided to China for the Aged Care.

So that’s part of a vocation education for that area.

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Queensland is a market that is of great interest to Taiwanese for education.

Queensland is the preferred destination for all the Taiwanese who come to Australia, which is about 12,000 a year. More than 4,000 often come to Queensland so we have a very good reputation.

It’s well spread from the university sector through vocational education and training.

large numbers have been going to English language training and there is several hundred of them that come study at our high schools.

We’re very proud at Trade & Investment Queensland, of Queensland’s premier position among the states and I’d encourage anybody who is wanting to get more students from Taiwan to come and see us we will be very happy to help you grow your business in the Taiwan market.

Thank you.