Macquarie University today announced a proposal to begin discussions with other interested higher education providers about the transfer of its chiropractic teaching by 2015.
The proposal involves the transfer of all Department of Chiropractic taught units and degrees, and relevant capital assets. It also involves the potential transfer of a number of chiropractic academic staff together with their entitlements.
Executive Dean of Science Professor Clive Baldock said the initiative was first and foremost an academic one, based on a need for the Faculty of Science to build upon the University’s recent major strategic investments in research-intensive disciplines such as biomedical science and engineering.
“Macquarie University has recently invested significantly in a postgraduate medical school and a state-of-the-art private hospital,” he explained. “We naturally want to focus our efforts on supporting these initiatives with our teaching and research.”
The University now proposes to institute a Request for tender relating to the transfer of the courses.
“While our chiropractic area does not meet our requirements from a research-intensive perspective, we believe our chiropractic degrees to be of the highest teaching quality, and they remain extremely popular with students. We therefore believe the responsible thing to do is to begin discussions with other higher education providers who are keen to grow in this area,” Professor Baldock said.
The proposal involves the transfer of all Department of Chiropractic taught units and degrees, and relevant capital assets. It also involves the potential transfer of a number of chiropractic academic staff together with their entitlements.
Executive Dean of Science Professor Clive Baldock said the initiative was first and foremost an academic one, based on a need for the Faculty of Science to build upon the University’s recent major strategic investments in research-intensive disciplines such as biomedical science and engineering.
“Macquarie University has recently invested significantly in a postgraduate medical school and a state-of-the-art private hospital,” he explained. “We naturally want to focus our efforts on supporting these initiatives with our teaching and research.”
The University now proposes to institute a Request for tender relating to the transfer of the courses.
“While our chiropractic area does not meet our requirements from a research-intensive perspective, we believe our chiropractic degrees to be of the highest teaching quality, and they remain extremely popular with students. We therefore believe the responsible thing to do is to begin discussions with other higher education providers who are keen to grow in this area,” Professor Baldock said.
