There are major opportunities for growth in the trade and business relationships between Australia and India, the Chairman of the Tata Group told an audience at UNSW after receiving an honorary Doctor of Business.
UNSW will honour the outstanding achievements of Mr Ratan Tata, Chairman of the Tata Group – India’s largest corporation – with the degree of Doctor of Business.
Innovative use of adaptive technologies to teach engineering and a scheme that encourages disadvantaged students into university have won UNSW two prestigious teaching awards.
Sixty years after Australia first opened its doors to students from Asia, some of the first intake will be back on campus this week for a gala dinner, with a keynote address by the NSW Premier.
Vice-Chancellor Professor Fred Hilmer has applauded the vision behind the Federal Government’s Asian Century White Paper and welcomed the recognition that education and innovation are central to achieving its objectives.
A new centre to help double Indigenous student enrolments at UNSW has been opened by the NSW Governor. Balnaves Place – Home of Nura Gili was made possible by a $1.5 million donation from The Balnaves Foundation.
