CRC LEME
Open File Report 81
ABSTRACT
Regolith Professionals for Tomorrow
G. Taylor, S. Hill and B. Kovacs
This document presents and summarises five years of achievements
in Education and Training in the Cooperative Research Centre for
Landscape Evolution and Mineral Exploration. The Centre has developed
comprehensive activities, ranging from undergraduate scholarships,
to encourage students to pursue regolith studies, to professional
short courses for practicing geologists.
This report will serve to:
- Guide prospective and present students and student advisors
in CRC LEME as to what they can expect from the Centre and what
the Centre expects of them;
- Provide an insight for employers of exploration geologists,
university geoscience academics, and other CRC’s into the
quality and breadth of experience of students, at all levels,
graduating from universities associated with CRC LEME;
- Provide ideas and stimulate academics to broaden their sights
to include regolith studies in their curricula and stimulate other
CRC’s to consider some of the strategies CRC LEME has developed
in Education and Training; and
- Provide a consolidated insight into CRC LEME’s Education
and Training for its core-parties and the CRC Secretariat.
As Director I am proud to be leading a team that has achieved much
over a comparatively short time and feel privileged to have interacted
with participants in the many educational and training activities
of the Centre. It is particularly heartening to have seen the enthusiasm
with which members of CRC LEME, from across the country, have cooperated
to deliver courses and become involved in advising students of the
Centre.
I am particularly pleased to see the educational activity of the
Centre growing at Curtin University of Technology, where the Centre
now jointly funds a lecturer, and am looking forward to seeing regolith
studies augmented in their curriculum. The regolith courses at the
University of Canberra and the Australian National University are
providing a steady supply of graduates to industry and other employers,
so taking regolith knowledge and skills generated through the Centre's
activities into the workplace.
Last updated: Friday, July 21, 2000 04:24 PM
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