The international talent strategy is really a set of actions that is designed to facilitate and retain highly skilled immigrants as a complement to the domestic workforce. In this case, the overarching objective is to really increase that share of highly skilled or top talent within that reduced overall immigration envelope to support areas like STEM, AI infrastructure and major projects—all the things I outlined in my opening remarks.
In terms of what we've done so far in terms of enhancing that, we have tried to ensure that all of those international talent strategy occupations are included in express entry categories. That means that the way we do the selection prioritizes those key occupations. We've also introduced 14-day processing for Ph.D. students and their families and facilitated, on an expedited basis, the first wave of research chairs, post-docs and Ph.D. students participating in Global Impact+, which is the research initiative being currently led by ISED.
We're also preparing to launch a targeted advertising campaign internationally so that people are aware of what's available in Canada and so there can be those closer links to the great life and opportunities here, and links to employers as well. We are seeing pretty good results so far, although, of course, there's always a lot more that we're going to be monitoring to see if the strategy is working. Right now, about 27.8% of the federal skilled permanent resident arrivals have these intended occupations that fall under that category. The target is 30%, so we're meeting that.
In terms of international students' arrivals in public-designated learning institutions at the master's level or above, we have 13.4%, and the target is 13%. We are seeing a promising trajectory in the work we're doing in this space. Of course, this does complement our existing pathways. There's the global skills strategy already in place. There is express entry. I mentioned category-based selection tools and things like that.
I hope that gives a bit of an overview.
