{"id":17292,"date":"2008-09-18T01:53:33","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T17:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/media-release\/curtin-welcomes-additional-choice-for-students\/"},"modified":"2008-09-18T01:53:33","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T17:53:33","slug":"curtin-welcomes-additional-choice-for-students","status":"publish","type":"media-release","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/media-release\/curtin-welcomes-additional-choice-for-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Curtin welcomes additional choice for students"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"title\">\n<div id=\"titledesc\">\n<p>Â鶹ֱ²¥ of Technology has welcomed the University of Western Australia\u2019s announcement of a proposed new curriculum model, saying initiatives which increase the number of choices available were good for all students.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Curtin\u2019s Deputy Vice-Chancellor Education, Professor Robyn Quin, said it was important universities offered distinctive modes and methods of study which best met the needs and future aspirations of students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCurtin is committed to a triple-i curriculum model: industry-intercultural-interdisciplinary,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe regularly survey current and potential students and know that our student body has a strong career orientation.\u00a0 Therefore we have a strong focus on meeting student and employer needs, to ensure our graduates are highly employable both locally and internationally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said an issue on which UWA and Curtin were in accord was the need to provide opportunities for interdisciplinary studies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problems of this world are multi-faceted, complex and will not be resolved within traditional disciplinary boundaries,\u201d Professor Quin said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe critical thinking graduate must be able to cross disciplines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Professor Quin said ensuring a range of pathways and options were available meant greater choice for students which would yield benefits to the State in the longer term.<\/p>\n<p>Information on Curtin\u2019s triple-i model can be found at: <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/media_centre\/archives.cfm?release=5063%5C\">http:\/\/campusnews.curtin.edu.au\/media_centre\/archives.cfm?release=5063<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Modified: 18 September 2008<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Â鶹ֱ²¥ of Technology has welcomed the University of Western Australia\u2019s announcement of a proposed new curriculum model, saying initiatives which increase the number of choices available were good for all students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4275,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-17292","media-release","type-media-release","status-publish","hentry","category-campus-and-global-community"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":false,"credits":{"author":"","photographer":"","media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}}},"featured_image":false,"author_meta":{"first_name":"Curtin","last_name":"University","display_name":"Â鶹ֱ²¥"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/17292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/media-release"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/17292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17292"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=17292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}