SA Tertiary Environment

South Australia's long standing tertiary providers include The University of Adelaide, Flinders University, the University of South Australia and state vocational education/training provider TAFESA.

We are now seeing three of the world's pre-eminent universities having a presence in Adelaide: Carnegie Mellon University from the US, British defence specialist Cranfield University and recently, the University College London has signed an agreement to establish a school in Adelaide for 2010.

History

The SA chapter of NAPSA traces its origins back to the first conference for Schools Liaison Personnel held in 1989 at Warburton Vic, the second conference was in 1990 at Roseworthy in SA. SA hosted the successful 7th biennial conference at Glenelg in 2002 with over 150 delegates attended, including overseas representation from Tasmania and New Zealand.

In executive terms our chapter has existed since the late seventies when the universities and CAE's began to offer combined presentations about tertiary study to secondary schools.

SA chapter

The SA chapter has a central executive of 5, comprising representatives from the three universities, TAFE and SATAC. As a group our key recruitment functions are to operate the Tertiary Education Pannel Presentations (TEPPs), comprising of a joint panel of Uni and TAFE representatives in both Metro and Country Regions. SATAC provide assistance in detailing and negotiating these joint times and dates with schools.

As a professional group we aim to provide mutual support, a forum for the discussion and negotiation of all major career events and a structure for the discussion of professional matters affecting members. NAPSA members are also encouraged to host joint professional development sessions were possible: including defensive driving, presentation skills and first aid. There is no state membership, due to the small size of the committee and we have found that funding decisions can be made by each of the managers as items are raised.