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Australian university starts up in Upper Hutt Australia's Ballarat University is to provide courses at a campus in Upper Hutt in a joint-venture with Campus Group Holdings, and the first pupils are expected in November. The university will run the courses on the former Central Institute of Technology site in Upper Hutt which has capacity for several thousand students as well as 500-bed accommodation. The site is managed by New Zealand International Campus (NZIC), a subsidiary of the Australian-based Campus Group Holdings. NZIC campus director Steve Townsend said he hoped to get up to 100 international students for the first intake next month with another intake in March. The Upper Hutt site would not be a Ballarat campus but students would be enrolled in Ballarat degrees and the university would oversee quality assurance, teaching, assessment and the curriculum. Campus Group Holdings would recruit staff and be responsible for infrastructure, Mr Townsend said. NZIC has recently gained NZQA-accreditation to provide degrees in Business, Commerce, Computing, Information Technology, Management and Business Administration. It also teaches diplomas in business subjects as well as in tourism and hospitality in a joint venture with tertiary institution New South Wales Technical And Further Education (TAFE). The business model used by Campus Group Holdings at its Upper Hutt campus is used in several sites around Australia with other universities. Subtext will have a feature on Campus Group Holdings in its November edition.
A story in The Australian is at this web page. The University of Ballarat website. The New Zealand International Campus website. The TAFE NSW website. |
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