Earlier today, I officially signed a memorandum
of understanding with the Queensland Agricultural Training Colleges. We were
joined at this event by State Minister for Agriculture and local MP for
Rockhampton, Bill Byrne.
CQUniversity is already recognised as one of Australia’s
most outstanding universities for Agricultural Research and with this new MOU I
believe our newly designed ag program will place us ahead of the pack when it
comes to agricultural training and education.
The new Bachelor of Agriculture Degree was launched during
Beef Week earlier this year and will see the first intake of students commence
the program in Term 1, 2016. The design of this program allows students to
explore all facets of agriculture from on the farm projects to technology and
agribusiness. It allows students to gain experience in the field and will also
connect them with industry mentors. All in all, this program will be
Australia’s most hands-on agriculture degree program.
The MOU we signed today will help lay the foundations of the
program because it will see our students and researchers being able to access
the fantastic agricultural training facilities available at the QATC in Emerald
and Longreach and will also provide QATC students with seamless pathways into
further study at CQUni.
The milestone reached today is another exciting step in
CQUniversity’s agriculture journey and will complement our existing partnership
and MOU with Agforce that sees us providing pathways for school and vocational
students.
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