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Successful Academic Collaboration in a Rapidly Changing World

Professor Sue ThomasVice-President (Research)

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Charles Sturt University

A multi-campus network throughout regional and metropolitan Australia.

CSU is the largest non-metropolitan university in Australia delivering more than 400 programs to over 35,000 students.

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History of academic engagement with China

• First joint venture cooperation programme approved in 2000

• >5000 successful graduates

• 17 formal partnerships with universities in China

• ~1800 Chinese students studying CSU courses

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Ingredients for cross-border cooperation

• Foundation with “like” universities• Clear purpose & vision, with mutual benefit• Mutual respect, get to know each other• Quality and standards• Whole of organisation basis

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Types of collaborations with mutual benefit

• Staff training and exchange

• Student exchange• Joint research programs• Mutual recognition of

credit • Curriculum development • Course delivery

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National intent

China“It is essential to reform and develop education by opening it to the outside world, carrying out education exchanges and collaboration at multiple levels and in a broad scope, and raising education’s internationalization level”. China Education Report Policy(2010-2020)

AustraliaCommissioned discussion paper “Australia in the Asian century”

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Features of future opportunities:for students

• Two way flow of benefits

• Mutual recognition of academic credit across national boundaries

• Higher level of student mobility

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Features of future opportunities:for staff

• Sabbatical time abroad• Dedicated periods engaged in collaborative

research abroad• Opportunities to internationalise curricula• Growing strength for all partner systems

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The future

• Nomadic students• Multiple engagements with University education• High expectations of quality and service• Sophisticated use & understanding of

technology

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The future at CSU

Continued evolution of distance education • Improved technology• Global input into curricula• Opportunities for all students• Provision to small rural communities & those who

cannot leave home

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And research…

• Fundamental need of Universities to inform curricula with the latest in research & scholarship

• Broad research needs of society• Opportunities for researchers to look outwards

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“The highest result of education is tolerance”. Helen Keller (1880-1968), Optimism, 1903

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