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Key Centres for Teaching and Research
Key Centres for Teaching and Research have enabled education to respond to emerging national needs for the development of expertise in fields important to national development. Key Centres link teaching, applied research and more basic research. Key Centres have formed partnerships with industry to provide trained personnel, raise the level of applied research skills, and undertake some fundamental research on which requests of industry for specific problem-solving can be based. Subject to satisfactory performance, the Key Centres have been funded for six years. Although the ARC does not fund new Centres under this program, it continues to fund many excellent Centres.
Program Objectives
The objectives of the Key Centres for teaching and Research program have been to:
- to make a significant contribution to enhancing the quantity and quality of teaching and research in higher education;
- to assist the higher education sector to respond to demands for expertise in particular fields, especially through teaching and research activities in areas relevant to national economic, technological and social objectives;
- to encourage, strengthen and promote cooperation between higher education, industry and end user groups and encourage financial support and partnership for Centres from these external agencies;
- through the activities of individual KCsTR, to promote the interrelationship of teaching and research and develop, as appropriate, interdisciplinary links and programmes in host institutions;
- to promote teaching and a spectrum of research activities, including applied research, that differ from the basic research undertaken in SRCs and the large-scale industry-focused work of Co-operative Research Centres (the activities of KCsTR are seen as complementary to the activities of the other two types of Centre); and
- to establish a sustainable focus for research in the area.
Key Centres of Teaching and Research - Funding for 2001
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