Australian federal government on Tuesday announced to spend millions on an assurance fund, to help international students manage sudden college collapses.

The Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook, released on Tuesday, showed the jobless rate is expected to fall to 4.5 percent in 2011/12.

Tertiary Education Minister Chris Evans said the strengthening Australian economy meant not as much money was needed for the retraining of retrenched workers.

"This allowed the government to redirect 55 million U.S. dollars from the productivity places program, in line with the need to find savings across the budget," Evans said in a statement on Tuesday.

Evans said Labor government will allocate another 25 million U. S. dollars over two years into the assurance fund, which helps international students manage sudden college collapses.

It is clear that a number of Australian international education providers will be under pressure in 2011 from a range of factors, Evans said, partly because of the high value of the Australian dollar.

For the first time in more than 14 years, an Australian minister for tertiary education last week gone to China to try to head off a potentially disastrous collapse in the number of young Chinese studying in Australia.

More than one in three of the 212,000 overseas students on university campuses in Australia are from China and one in 10 are from India. These two markets now comprise almost 46 percent of the total of international students in Australia.

Motorola is involved in various education and innovation programs in China through its partnership with local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), a company executive said.

"Our overall strategy is to continue to improve education and create better communities everywhere with our employees work," Eileen Sweeney, director for corporate and foundation philanthropic relations at Motorola, told Xinhua in an interview in Chicago on Saturday.

Motorola Foundation, the company's philanthropic arm, recently hosted its first-ever Asia-Pac Network Grantee Conference in Shanghai, at which 30 NGOs received 821,000 U.S. dollars for local education, she said.

Such cooperation with the Chinese NGOs was fruitful, Sweeney said. "We have been involved since 1994 and have helped more than 23,000 children in China return to elementary schools. We donated more than 5 million U.S. dollars to fund 105 Motorola Hope schools in China."

While providing financial support for schools, Motorola also helped with teacher training, provided resources and scholarships for students, she added. "We want to be so much more than just writing a check."

Motorola has about 1,000 employees who volunteer for China's Project Hope, and is engaged in another education program called Career Goal, she said.

Innovation is another focus area for Motorola's philanthropic work in China, said Sweeney.

For example, Motorola funded the Mobile Lab program at the Shanghai Science Museum, which brings science into rural Chinese communities.

On Oct. 13, about 2,500 Motorola employees volunteered at 39 "Annual Global Service Day" projects in Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing and Shanghai cities.

Working with NGOs in China always leads to great ideas, she added. "It is really a privilege to be partnering with NGOs, and they make the real difference."