Cooperative Research Centre - CRC Education Success Stories

CRC Education Success Stories

• The CRC program is estimated to have supported 4.400 doctorate and masters degrees by research.
• The value of CRC education outcomes is estimated to be a total f $163 million.
• The Poultry CRC produced an information sharing service www.poultryhub.org which the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation praised for increasing interest in poultry production.
• The CRC for Tropical Rainforest Ecology and Management produced the first written history of resource management by the Yalanji people, written in both English and Yalanji language.
• The Molecular Plant Breeding CRC, in conjunction with the Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics developed "Get into Genes", an education program about the role of gene technology in agriculture. Over 5000 high school students in South Australia and Victoria have participated in program.
• Each year the CRC programmme supports around 2000 Australian researchers and more than 1000 PhD students.
• Over 150 CRC programme supported post-graduate students graduate each year.