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The Fresh Talent Initiative was a Scottish Government policy framework to encourage people to settle in
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. The initiative was launched in February 2004 by then
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Jack McConnell Jack Wilson McConnell, Baron McConnell of Glenscorrodale, (born 30 June 1960) is a Scottish politician who served as First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Labour Party in Scotland from 2001 to 2007. McConnell served as the Minister ...
as a way of countering the 'biggest challenge facing Scotland' of its falling population. Since immigration is a matter reserved to the UK parliament in the legislation that established the Scottish Parliament in 1999 (the Scotland Act 1998), agreement had to be obtained from the Home Office for a key part of the initiative: to allow overseas graduates from
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, who express the intention of living and working in Scotland, to stay on for two years following graduation to seek employment. The Fresh Talent: Working in Scotland Scheme was up and running by summer 2005, applying to those who graduated that year. Opposition towards the scheme was voiced by some
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which felt that the scheme gave Scottish universities a competitive advantage in terms of attracting students from overseas. The Fresh Talent: Working in Scotland Scheme was subsumed into the UK immigration system on 29 June 2008 when the UK government brought in a new points based immigration scheme.Fresh Talent: Working in Scotland
ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk, accessed 5 November 2008


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Demographics of Scotland The demography of Scotland includes all aspects of population, past and present, in the area that is now Scotland. Scotland has a population of 5,463,300, as of 2019. The population growth rate in 2011 was estimated as 0.6% per annum according ...
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