State higher education gets Australian boost

Updated on: Tuesday, February 21, 2012

The Australian Technology Network (ATN), comprising five universities, has joined hands with researchers from various higher education institutions in Tamil Nadu.

The 17-member team led by Prof. Jeanette Hacket, vice-chancellor of Curtin University, held discussions with state and deemed universities on Monday and are expected to hold discussions with research groups at IIT Madras on Tuesday.

Mr Ray Kelly, executive director, Queensland University of Technology (QUT) said that the university had relations with IIT Madras for the past five years in the information security area and they plan to extend their initiative further.

"We have been working to evolve technologies for security to data transmission and denial of cyber attacks. Our university has extended invitation to Anna University vice-chancellor to visit our university for collaboration", he said.

Prof. David Wood, deputy vice chancellor, Curtin University said the university is looking for research partnership in the resources sector. An memorandum of understanding has already been signed with IIT Kharagpur and we are looking at signing agreements with departments of mines, he said.

"We are for developing key technology partnership with 15 universities around the world and four of them are in India," Prof. Bill Purcell, deputy vice chancellor, University of Technology, Sydney said, adding that the university would enter into a new MoU with IIT Madras soon. "The university is keen on human centred engineering, especially in bio-medical engineering and devices," he said.
"There is a significant shift from teaching and learning to research in the past 15 years. About 40 per cent of the faculty of our university are now involved in research," Prof Scott Sheppard, deputy vice chancellor, Queensland University of Technology said.

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