  {"id":17762,"date":"2011-06-07T04:03:36","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T20:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/media-release\/curtin-gains-prestigious-accreditation\/"},"modified":"2011-06-07T04:03:36","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T20:03:36","slug":"curtin-gains-prestigious-accreditation","status":"publish","type":"media-release","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/media-release\/curtin-gains-prestigious-accreditation\/","title":{"rendered":"Curtin gains prestigious accreditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Âé¶¹Ö±²¥\u2018s project management degree course recently gained accreditation from the Project Management Institute Global Accreditation Centre for Project Management Education Programs (GAC).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Director of the Project Management program, Associate Professor David Baccarini, said this is a significant achievement for Curtin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only does it mean that Curtin\u2019s project management course is of the highest quality, but also it provides a valuable educational resource for the many project managers in Western Australia and elsewhere,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProject management is a vital skill for the Western Australian economy. It\u2019s the only way that any organisation can achieve its goals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven Tony Blair said that the skill set required for making the modern state work effectively is through project management.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Head of PMI Australasia, Anwar Benjamin said that the PMI-GAC accreditation confirms the scale and quality of Curtin\u2019s University\u2019s project management degree program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the accreditation, the degree conforms to a comprehensive international standard, and arms the students with a globally-recognised qualification,\u201d Mr Benjamin said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations to David and his team at Curtin on this achievement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Âé¶¹Ö±²¥\u2018s project management degree course recently gained accreditation from the Project Management Institute Global Accreditation Centre for Project Management Education Programs (GAC).<\/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-17762","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":"Âé¶¹Ö±²¥"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/17762","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\/17762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17762"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=17762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}