The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has developed the OECD Indicators of Talent Attractiveness tool to capture the strengths and weaknesses of OECD countries regarding their capacity to attract and retain highly skilled workers at the master/PhD level, international students in tertiary education, and foreign entrepreneurs.
The most attractive OECD countries for highly qualified potential immigrants are Australia, Sweden, Switzerland, New Zealand and Canada, in part because of favourable admission and stay conditions, the new measure of talent attractiveness reveals. Most countries can increase their attractiveness by accelerating application procedures and offering better residence conditions to highly qualified migrants and their family members.
OECD has also published a report on benchmarking higher education (HE) system performance which provides a comprehensive and empirically rich review of the HE landscape across OECD countries, taking stock of how well they are performing in meeting their education, research and engagement responsibilities.