The Australian Financial Review 24 COURSES AND CAREERS Monday 9 July 2012 l www.afr.com COURSES AND CAREERS 25 In brief CQU `back on the Region to work together Wanted: Asia-literate graduates to talk turkey Tertiary Education Minister Chris Evans has announced Australian support for two regional projects following the There is a strong view that McCallum says the report will be international business courses but be track to greatness' inaugural East Asia Summit education released in August to coincide with embedded in the undergraduate and ministers meeting that was held in more Australians must study the anticipated launch of the Henry postgraduate programs in humanities Indonesia from July 3 to 5. The first the languages and cultures white paper. and social sciences, particularly Joanna Mather that C-Management Services would project, to be carried out in partnership “Despite our geographic proximity, economics, law, creative industries, eventually be listed on the Australian with Korea, is to establish a regional of our influential neighbours, Australia’s engagement with Asia science and engineering and CQUniversity vice-chancellor Scott Stock Exchange, securing a network of technical and vocational writes Joanna Mather. threatens to decline while other education,” its submission says. Bowman has declared his institution comfortable future for the university’s education and training providers to countries enhance educational, Several submissions cite the back from the brink of financial main campus in Rockhampton, exchange ideas, share expertise and business and people-to-people links,” Australian Consortium for In- disaster and on track to become one central Queensland. form commercial partnerships. The Business leaders say the single biggest he says. Country Indonesian Study (ACICIS) of the nation’s “great” universities. But the 13-year partnership ended second will involve the University of challenge for engaging more fully in “By 2030 China and India will be as an exemplar for exposing Hitting back at critics who in February 2008, when the university Melbourne co-ordinating the delivery of Asia is attracting and retaining the dominant global economies as university students and other young “scoffed” at his initial targets for paid $12 million for the remaining 50 quality assurance training for higher “Asia-capable” talent. Educators and power and influence shifts professionals to Asia. Since 1995 improvement, Professor Bowman said per cent. education officials from across the policy makers tend to use the term overwhelmingly to Australia’s more than 1300 students from 33 CQUniversity was now on firm Following the collapse of its region. ªEducation co-operation between “Asia literate”. doorstep.” universities have studied in Indonesia financial footing and could set its Meridian group of colleges, GCM EAS members will lead to harmonised However you describe it, there is a Research by Asialink and the with ACICIS. Among the program’s sights higher than ever before. was placed into voluntary education systems in the areas of clear need for Australia to become Australian Industry Group has found alumni is Jennifer Robinson, who Among his new goals is to lift administration a year later in 2009. training, skills and qualification better rehearsed in the languages and that businesses rate having senior went on to become Julian Assange’s CQUniversity’s research performance Today CQUniversity still has its recognition,º Senator Evans said. cultures of its nearest neighbours. staff capable of working cross- legal adviser in 2010. from near the bottom of the pack at capital city campuses but recent Joanna Mather As former Treasury boss Ken culturally in Asia very highly. They Some students who take part in the present into the top half of the growth has been in domestic students, Henry prepares a white paper on also rate having a strategy for Asian program are already learning nation’s 39 universities. principally from regional Queensland. Australia in the Asian Century, much operations, strong local partnerships Indonesian at their home university in “The university was the worst “We were using the income from UTAS chancellor chosen of the focus has been on schools. in Asia and knowledge of Asian Australia and go there to spend a full house in the best street and we’ve our metro campuses to prop up the Former Tasmanian premier Michael Field Labor’s language policies have business operations. semester, others do a shorter stint actually started a renovation job that regional university,” Professor has been chosen as the next chancellor mostly been schools-based. Similarly, In its submission, law firm King & over summer. we couldn’t have dreamed of Bowman said. of the University of Tasmania. Mr Field, the opposition has promised to lift the Wood Mallesons says a national The program’s founder and achieving a few years ago,” Professor “So what we’ve done over the last an alumnus of the university, will replace number of Year12 students learning policy directed at promoting and director, David Hill, a professor of Bowman said. three years is very much focus on former Commonwealth Director of Public a second language to 40 per cent supporting people-to-people south-east Asian Studies at Murdoch “We’re one of the fastest growing central Queensland. That’s where Prosecutions Damian Bugg, whose term within a decade. exchanges in education and the University, says about 45 students a universities in Australia with 30 per we’ve seen all the growth and we’re comes to an end on December 31. For many of those already at professions should be created. year do the semester program, while cent growth in domestic student now just about independent of that Originally from Railton on Tasmania's university, the language initiatives It says businesses operating in the 60 to 80 take part in the summer numbers over the past three years.” [city campus] income.” north-west coast, Mr Field was elected will come too late. Accountants, Asian region should be encouraged to offering. In 2009, Professor Bowman and his If the financial sustainability goal to the House of Assembly for the seat of lawyers and doctors studying now create employment opportunities for The Asian Studies Association of senior management team adopted a has been met, the remaining ones are Braddon in 1976, and he was Labor need to find other, quicker ways to Asia-literate graduates, and to value Australia, which is holding its renewal program involving several harder to tie down. premier and treasurer from 1989 to become familiar with Asia. Asian literacy “as an important biannual conference in Sydney this main goals, including achieving But Professor Bowman is adamant. 1992 under the historic Labor-Green Academic leaders such as Kent criterion in overall candidate week, has recommended that the financial sustainability by 2012 and He said the addition of 30 new Accord. Joanna Mather Anderson, the pro vice-chancellor selection, management promotion and ACICIS model be adopted for other becoming a “strong regional programs to meet local jobs needs (international) at the University of Australian universities are in the frontline today to produce students who are Asia-capable and familiar with the language and culture of our neighbours. Photo: LOUIE DOUVIS executive assessment processes”. countries. university” within five years. Adelaide, say short stints of study There are two schools of thought on ACICIS summer students go to “A lot of people scoffed when we MGSM appoints Kirkbride overseas are part of the solution and sets them up for the reality of careers Century”. The opposition, meanwhile, 2009 and 2010, according to an what Asian literacy means. learn about international relations, set those targets but everyone here got Macquarie Graduate School of are valuable even if the teaching is nowadays,” he says. has announced a reverse Colombo Language is Australian Universities International In its purest sense, Asian literacy is international development or behind them,” Professor Bowman Management in Sydney has appointed done in English. Adelaide is not alone in recognising Plan, which was a 1950s scheme that Directors Forum study, the results of knowledge of at least one Asian journalism. Language lessons happen said, admitting he too was “pretty Paul Kirkbride to the role of director of At Adelaide, architecture students the need to provide opportunities for supported foreign students to study important as which were released earlier this year. language. But there is another camp in the mornings; seminars in English critical of the university before I executive education. Dr Kirkbride will join with no language training have the students beyond those who are in here following World War II. Tertiary Education Minister Chris that uses “literacy” in a broader sense occur in the afternoons. started working here”. MGSM in August following his departure opportunity every year to attend a language classes or studying The opposition’s deputy leader and learning a foreign Evans acknowledges there is more to to mean the culture, art and sociology The program’s business model is a Despite his confidence in the from Mt Eliza Executive Education at “studio” in India. international relations. Many foreign affairs spokeswoman, Julie be done. “At the end of 2011, more of another county. simple one. Member universities pay university’s financial health, Melbourne Business School. He has a Students spend two weeks in India universities are incorporating study Bishop, says more Australian students language teaches than 97,000 Chinese students were As valuable as short-term exposure an annual membership levy of $900, CQUniversity was one of only a few PhD in organisational power and has working on projects with Indian abroad experiences into mainstream should go on exchange to Asia. But enrolled in higher education courses is, The University of Adelaide’s which entitles students from that universities in Australia that finished specialised in organisational change, architects and students. degrees, either as one-off subjects or details of how the scheme would work you empathy that is in Australia,” he said in February.