Common use of University strategies Clause in Contracts

University strategies. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Institute's higher education teaching activity involves delivering an enabling program for Indigenous adult learners and teaching into a select number of professionally accredited undergraduate awards (Nursing and Teaching degrees) as well as other professionally and culturally relevant undergraduate degrees and postgraduate coursework programs hosted by ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ University. CDU takes over-arching responsibility for policies and procedures for course review, industry engagement and quality management and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Institute has agreed to work in collaboration with CDU to ensure appropriate levels of industry and community engagement are sought and responded to within the curriculum. In parallel, the Institute will continue to maintain independent dialogue and relationships with employer groups, community representatives and other key stakeholders invested in the graduate attributes of ACIKE students and will bring this input into interim and major course reviews at CDU. The 'Preparation for Tertiary Success' program remains a centre-piece of the Institute's teaching programs and provides employer groups with an attainable enabling program designed specifically for Indigenous employees within their organisations and acts as an educational stepping stone toward professional qualifications at the undergraduate level. Over the life of this Compact, the Institute will work with government agencies, industry groups and large Indigenous organisations to adopt this program as an essential element of their Indigenous staff career development strategy. This will include developing innovative and responsive course delivery models that enable cohort engagement at an organisational level. The Institute's teaching effort in ACIKE brings into the partnership the Institute's proud and valued history and expertise in delivering nationally recognised undergraduate qualifications especially designed and delivered to strengthen Indigenous identity, achieve learner success and transform lives of Aboriginal and ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Islander people and communities. As Batchelor and CDU work to establish market acceptance for the ACIKE programs on offer and build student cohorts across all courses, the partnership will seek to develop new programs of relevance to Indigenous learners in consultation with community, government and industry stakeholders. In terms of research training awards, the Institute accredits and manages its higher degree by research programs - a Masters of Indigenous Knowledges (MIK) and a PhD program - independently of the CDU ACIKE arrangement. Over the past 18 months the Institute has focused its research activity to concentrate on three key areas of research strength, namely; Indigenous education, Indigenous creative arts and Indigenous language revival and linguistics. Most recently this has included narrowing HDR student intake and supervision to a matching set of Fields of Research thereby creating conditions for a supportable and directed set of areas that contribute directly to tackling a national need for Indigenous research and researcher capacity building, researcher ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ and effective nodes and networks of collaboration. The Institute's collaborations with leading research institutions (via CRN funding) combined with the focusing of our research effort, will contribute directly to the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Review objective of achieving more high-quality Aboriginal and ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Islander researchers in universities and research agencies contributing to a national research agenda that values Aboriginal and ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Islander perspectives and reflects Indigenous development priorities. The Institute will continue to monitor and review its research training programs with input from external academics and leading Indigenous researchers and advisors. Both the MIK and the PhD will undergo major review over the period of this Compact agreement.