New courses at UniSA and Flinders Uni back AUKUS sub program
South Australian universities are quick off the mark with courses to back the AUKUS submarine program.
South Australian universities have been quick off the mark with new courses to help build a skilled workforce to support the AUKUS submarine plan and other defence projects.
On Tuesday the University of South Australia launched a new global executive MBA in defence and space to be delivered with UK and US partners which are closely connected with industry, an arrangement that mirrors the three countries in the AUKUS agreement. The MBA is designed to equip managers and leaders to deal with the complexity of Australia’s growing number of defence and space projects.
Lan Snell, dean of postgraduate programs in the UniSA business school, said the new 18 month MBA “leveraged off UniSA’s strong and established position as a leader in defence and space”.
Professor Snell said the course would be taught in six-week blocks of online coursework as well as three two-week face-to-face intensives, one in Adelaide, one in London and one in Washington. So far the $96,000 degree has more than 130 expressions of interest.
The launch of the MBA follows closely on Flinders University’s announcement on Saturday of new partnerships with UK and US universities to boost its nuclear education and research.
Flinders will link with the University of Manchester (the lead university in the UK’s Nuclear Technology Education Consortium) to deliver a nuclear masters program and PhD level research training.
It has also signed a second agreement for a research partnership with the University of Rhode Island which has strong defence links, including collaboration with the US Navy.
Flinders University vice-chancellor Colin Stirling said the new partnerships would “bring the world’s best nuclear education and research programs to Adelaide, equipping Flinders graduates with the high-tech skills required to build the SSN-AUKUS submarines”.
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