Regional boost for SCU | Coffs Coast Education | Primary and Tertiary Education in Coffs Coast

10th March 2009

www.scu.edu.au

THE bid to turn Southern Cross University into Australia's largest regional university got a kick along yesterday with a $2 million grant to study the feasibility of the plan.

The study, funded by the Federal Government, will examine the proposal to form a new national university, with SCU and Charles Sturt University as the foundation partners, and one or more other universities also joining.

“It could be the largest university in Australia in five years, depending on who joins,” SCU Vice-Chancellor Paul Clark said from Canberra yesterday.

He said that for the people of Lismore it meant a lot of courses could be offered that were not available before. The university may be able to offer new disciplines like live veterinary science and dentistry, he said.

Students trained in their new professions in the region were more likely to work locally, he said.

• Daily newspapers
• Bundaberg News-Mail
• Coffs Coast Advocate
• Fraser Coast Chronicle
• Gladstone Observer
• Grafton Daily Examiner
• Gympie Times
• Ipswich Queensland Times
• Lismore Northern Star
• Mackay Daily Mercury
• Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
• Sunshine Coast Daily
• Toowoomba Chronicle
• Tweed Daily News
• Warwick Daily News
• Community newspapers
• Ballina Shire Advocate
• Biloela Central Telegraph
• Byron Shire News
• Coolum & North Shore News
• East-Ipswich Satellite
• Emerald Central Queensland News
• Gatton Star
• Gold Coast Mail
• Ipswich Advertiser
• Logan Reporter
• Noosa News
• The Northern Rivers Echo
• Whitsunday Times
• Other publications
• Surat Basin News