Oz varsity signs pact with Mumbai University to impart disaster skills.
A team from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, will visit Mumbai next month to introduce short and long-term courses, aimed at providing students here with special skill sets to deal with terrorism and other disasters. This is an outcome of a visit to universities in Sydney and Melbourne by principals of colleges affiliated to the Mumbai University.
Paul Barach, director of the New South Wales Injury Risk Management & Research Centre (IRMRC) at UNSW, will work with the staff and students of Mumbai colleges in order to formulate a risk management plan for the city, said members of the delegation that visited Australia. This will include security and disaster planning and the team will help students cope with the immediate and long-term fallouts of the recent terror attack in Mumbai. It is expected that opportunities for collaboration, research and teaching between the universities will be discussed at a strategic level, they added.
The UNSW has also signed an agreement of cooperation with the Mumbai University for exchange of students, faculty, technological information, equipment and research projects. A similar agreement has been signed between La Trobe University and University of Mumbai College Principals’ Association for staff and students’ exchanges, research activities and scholarship programmes.
Technical and Further Education (TAFE) certificate courses will be introduced in the affiliated colleges of Mumbai University from June 2009 with the help of TAFE Box Hill Institute (Melbourne). These will include automotive, community, welfare studies apart from accounting, animation, live production, theatre, tourism, event management and security.
Students from Australian universities will undertake short study tours, including academic and field visits here. In exchange, Indian students will be part of similar visits to Australia.
The University of Melbourne has agreed to offer courses for International Baccalaureate (IB) teacher training in Mumbai. Representatives from Australian universities will also visit colleges here for faculty development programmes. Monash University (Melbourne) has also proposed developing a joint degree (2+2) programme wherein students would study for two years in Mumbai and then complete the course in Australia.
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