An Australian-first alliance between Queensland's three largest universities will expand higher learning in a range of Asian and European languages.
With $2.27 million in Australian Government funding, The University of Queensland (UQ), Griffith University and Queensland University of Technology (QUT) will pool teaching of at least nine languages so that their students may learn them as part of formal studies.
Students at all three institutions - which together have about 110,000 enrolments – will be able to major in Chinese, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian and Spanish. So long as they study at award level at one of the three universities, they will be credited as if they were studying at their own institution. None of these universities currently offers this range of languages.
To improve convenience for students who want to study a language offered by a campus that it is not their own, the universities will establish a shared web portal. Where numbers make this possible, classes will be offered on more than one campus.
To facilitate enrolments in any of the nine languages, the three universities are working to streamline the existing cross-enrolment process. Ongoing collaboration between the three universities will result in higher visibility of all nine languages at each university.