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Boost in opportunities for bilingual engineering students in Australia

by Ray Clancy on May 1, 2013

Boost in opportunities for bilingual engineering students in Australia

Boost in opportunities for bilingual engineering students in Australia

The University of Queensland has become the first Australian University to partner with Europe’s leading network for the training of bicultural, bilingual engineers. It is working with the Technical University of Munich in Germany and the French Grandes Ecoles Centrales to establish double degree programmes that produce multicultural and multilingual globally focused graduates.

Deputy vice chancellor (International) Anna Ciccarelli said the admittance of the university into the Top Industrial Managers Europe (TIME) Association recognised the high calibre of engineering education provided. ‘As a cornerstone of our global strategy, we identified priority regions and countries in which our work will have the most positive impact and best complement our strategic directions in learning and discovery,’ she said. She added that the partnership is further evidence of the University of Queensland’s global standing in the top 100 of universities worldwide. [click to continue…]

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