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The City of Karratha, in partnership with the Karratha and Districts Chamber of Commerce and Industry, took a lead role to develop a business case and funding application for the establishment of the Pilbara Universities Centre in Karratha.
The proposed Pilbara Universities Centre would directly improve access to high quality university education locally, reduce migration from the region to pursue education, create opportunities to align tertiary education offerings with the local resources industry and connect local students with jobs in disciplines that are facing a skills shortage. The Rural Clinical School of WA has programs in 15 rural towns including Karratha and Port Hedland. Future Tails Future Tails will contribute knowledge to specialist areas of research, including static liquefaction, filtered and dry stacked tailing and numerical modelling for dam break studies. This knowledge will lead the practice, technology and process for the next generation of geotechnical engineers. Matt Currie, the Vice President of BHP’s Tailings Taskforce, said there was an increasing demand for tailings expertise, and for qualified people and methods to train these new professionals. “The program will provide essential training and development to people at all levels of their career, and help reinforce the different career paths within the tailings discipline,” Mr Currie said. |