Posted by Sarah Harris

IUCN Oceania strategic partnership

Professor Sushila Chang and Mr Taholo Kami signing the MoU, with Professor Brendan Mackey in the background.
Griffith Climate Change Response Program (GCCRP)
Published AuthorSarah Harris
Griffith University and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN, Pacific Regional Office) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to promote strategic partnerships in the region. The MOU will provide a solid platform for ongoing collaborative research projects, capacity building, and increase Griffith’s profile in the region as a desirable destination for post-graduate studies. […]

Sharing good governance expertise with Mongolia

Griffith International
Published AuthorSarah Harris
Griffith University governance experts are helping to shape Mongolia’s young democracy. Fifteen Mongolian government officials and policy makers will return home this week with fresh ideas on developing robust democratic institutions, after participating in a series of workshops and discussions in Brisbane and Canberra. They participated in the “Leadership, Change Management and Sustainable Governance Framework” […]

Qld a mine of information for Mongolians

Griffith Business School
Published AuthorSarah Harris
Resource-rich Mongolia has turned to Queensland for a lesson from the coalface in how the revenues and taxes of a mining boom should be managed. Griffith University welcomed delegates from Mongolia’s Ministry of Finance to its South Bank campus for a one-week course on finance management in the resources sector in December. “As a resource-rich […]

Mining Mongolia

Griffith Business School
Published AuthorSarah Harris
Griffith is an official stop on a tour of government officials seeking ideas and solutions for enhancing development outcomes from Mongolia’s extractive industries. The mining sector in Mongolia produces more than 20 percent of the nations GDP, 85% of its exports and makes a significant contribution to the national budget. Given the current expansion of […]

Students from four countries graduate as one for the benefit of world health

News articles
Published AuthorSarah Harris
Griffith University celebrates its fourth graduation for AusAID funded Public Health leadership fellows, and its first Asian Development Bank sponsored Vietnamese students, in their completion of the Master of Science in Public Health (International), on 28 June 2010, at the Southbank campus. The graduates completed a dissertation or a small scale public health project addressing […]

Griffith Welcomes 18 New AusAID Students

News articles
Published AuthorSarah Harris
Griffith University has recently welcomed 18 new students sponsored by the Australian government’s AusAID scholarship program. These scholarships are awarded to outstanding individuals from developing countries who, on completion of their degrees, return home to help develop their home countries. This semester, our AusAID students came from 12 different countries ranging from Malawi to Indonesia, […]

Designs on Hong Kong

Queensland College of Art
Published AuthorSarah Harris
Queensland College of Art has expanded internationally, with the opening of a new off-shore program in Bachelor of Design at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The course has begun with a full compliment of 30 students who over two semesters will “top up” their existing qualifications and graduate with a completed Bachelor Degree from […]