Australia is a stable, democratic and culturally diverse nation with a highly skilled workforce and one of the strongest performing economies in the world.
Pratul Awasthi is on a positive and exciting path in life. Much of his confidence stems from his 2014 New Colombo Plan (NCP) scholarship that led to studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and an internship with Telstra in the same country.
New Colombo Plan mobility students from Deakin University collaborated with Southwest University students in China to develop new information technology projects.
The New Colombo Plan mobility program recently supported Tim Ha from the University of Western Australia to participate in an Engineers Without Borders (EWB) Humanitarian Design Summit in Cambodia.
Twenty New Colombo Plan mobility students participated in a field trip to deepen their understanding of the culture and history of the indigenous Paiwan people of southern Taiwan.
Amarina Smith, the first Indigenous New Colombo Plan Fellow, has been featured on the Australian Government's Indigenous news website indigenous.gov.au.
