Current Situation
Charles Darwin University is a dual-sector university, which means the university offers Vocational Education and Training (VET) courses and Higher Education undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, covering a wide range of subjects and disciplines.
Enrolments in 2007 totalled 20,098 students, with 14,151 students enrolled in Vocational and Educational Training courses and 5947 enrolled in Higher Education degrees.
There are three areas of study offered by the university's three faculties:
- Faculty of Education, Health and Science
- Faculty of Law, Business and Arts
- Institute of Advanced Studies
The formerly independent Menzies School of Health Research has been incorporated as a school within the University's new Institute of Advanced Studies. The Menzies School of Health Research is a joint venture between CDU, the Menzies Foundation and the University of Sydney and is located at the Royal Darwin Hospital, in Casuarina.
The University has close links with Flinders University in South Australia, which itself has many students from the Northern Territory, including joint management of the Centre for Remote Health in Alice Springs and several education initiatives.
Schools:
- School of Australian Indigenous Knowledge Systems
- Graduate School for Health Practice
- School of Creative Arts and Humanities
- School of Health Sciences
- School of Education
- School of Law and Business
- School of Engineering and Information Technology
- School of Environmental and Life Sciences
- Menzies School of Health Research
- School for Social and Policy Research
- School for Environmental Research
The Vice Chancellor of the University is Professor Barney Glover.
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