The Northern Territory is set to enjoy a renewed focus on vocational education and training with Charles Darwin University (CDU) launching CDU TAFE to focus on future growth and job opportunities.
The more focused and streamlined structure has taken over from CDU’s previous Vocational Education and Training (VET) model.
In faraway outback towns across the Northern Territory, the tyranny of distance resulting in high transport costs means goods arrive, but sometimes never leave.
Piles of legacy waste containing scrap metal, car bodies, white goods, construction waste, tyres, car batteries and waste oils have remained at some sites for 100 years.
A land’s topography and landscape features have an influence on how fires behave, which is why local knowledge is vital in fire management.
But in Northern Australia’s savanna country many fires start, spread and exhaust themselves without a witness.
So, a Charles Darwin University (CDU) fire research team has put 22 years of burnt area data into a web map interface that studies fire edges, to identify features that might help explain what stops fire.
New research has warned that almost 30% of Litchfield National Park could be infested with the invasive weed gamba grass within a decade.
Infestations in the national park have spread rapidly and already cover about 30,000 hectares of the 144,000-hectare park.
The research, published in the Journal of Environmental Management, called for urgent action and resources to control the weed, which can pose an extreme fire risk to popular visitor areas.
A former Charles Darwin University (CDU) student has developed an augmented reality app to aid construction safety training in remote NT communities, to assist First Nations workers to learn and work on country while improving local housing.
Issues such as overcrowding, poor housing conditions and a severe housing shortage impact most remote communities and there is a need to train local tradesmen to support community construction and maintenance projects.
Charles Darwin University (CDU)’s North Australia Centre for Autonomous Systems, in partnership with RMIT University, the Australian Government’s Department of Education, and the Northern Territory Government, has developed the new Diploma of Advanced Manufacturing to assist NT manufacturers in transitioning to Industry 4.0.
A new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Charles Darwin University (CDU) and the Yothu Yindi Foundation (YYF) is expected to be a game-changer for First Nations people in East Arnhem Land.
The MOU co-signed by CDU Vice-Chancellor Professor Scott Bowman and YYF Chair Djawa Yunupingu in Nhulunbuy aims to better support Aboriginal communities with customised education, training, research and leadership opportunities for the region.