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The University of Newcastle Australia is an Australian public university that was established in 1965. The University of Newcastle Australia's main and largest campus is located in Callaghan, a suburb of Newcastle in New South Wales. University also has campuses in Ourimbah, Port Macquarie, Singapore and Sydney CBD. The university has enrolled approximately 15,256 full-time students and 15,080 part-time students (including more than 23,948 undergraduates).
Historically, The University of Newcastle Australia Medical School has implemented the Problem-based learning system for its undergraduate Bachelor of Medicine programme - a system later mandatorily implemented by the Australian Medical Council throughout Australia. It was also the university that introduced Undergraduate Medicine and Health Sciences Admission Test (UMAT) in the early 1990s. UMAT has since been accepted widely by different medical schools across Australian as an additional selection criteria.
The origins of the The University of Newcastle Australia can be traced back to the establishment of the Newcastle University College at the Newcastle Technical College site on 3 December 1951. The college was established under the authority of the then University of Technology New South Wales, which is now known as the University of New South Wales. At the time of its establishment theThe University of Newcastle Australia had just five full-time students and study was restricted to engineering, mathematics and science.
The university became autonomous through the University of Newcastle Act 1964 (NSW) which constituted the university on 1 January 1965 through a Proclamation of His Excellency the Governor of New South Wales. A document known as the University’s Grant of Arms is cited as being its very own Declaration of Independence.In 2003, The University of Newcastle Australia, together with five other Australian universities (Macquarie, La Trobe, Flinders, Griffith and Murdoch) established Innovative Research Universities Australia (IRUA).
The University of Newcastle Australia has five campuses, located at Callaghan, Ourimbah, Port Macquarie, Singapore and Sydney CBD. The university also has three premises within the Newcastle city centre.The Callaghan campus is the university’s main and largest campus. It is located in the Newcastle suburb of Callaghan situated approximately 12 kilometres (7 mi) from Newcastle CBD. The University of Newcastle Australia campus is placed on 140 hectares (346 acres) of natural bushland within which the university’s numerous buildings are located. Many of the university's operations are run out of the Callaghan campus, including student administration, course and degree program planning, and the university's Teaching and Learning division. All the major faculties are based on the campus. The University of Newcastle Australia campus also has access to the Auchmuty and Huxley libraries. Various other facilities are available on the campus, including several sporting fields, a sports and aquatic centre, and four on-campus residential colleges (Edwards Hall, International House, Evatt House and Barahineban).
Ourimbah Campus is a cross-institutional campus with both the The University of Newcastle Australia, TAFE NSW - Hunter Institute, and the Central Coast Community College having a presence on campus. It is located in the Central Coast suburb of Ourimbah. The Faculties of Business and Law, Education and Arts, Science and Information Technology, and Health all have a presence on the campus. In total they provide sixteen degree programs, five of these are exclusive to the campus.
The University of Newcastle Australia has a presence on the TAFE NSW - North Coast Institute Port Macquarie Campus. The university provides three degree programs at the campus, including one of the university’s enabling programs – Open Foundation. The Singapore Campus is the university's first overseas campus, which includes both the Delta Campus and the Henderson Campus of PSB Academy in the Central Region (Tiong Bahru) of Singapore. This new campus covers an area of 19,000 square metres (204,514 sq ft) behind the Tiong Bahru Plaza.The University of Newcastle Australia Sydney CBD campus provides a number of postgraduate degree programs from the Faculty of Business and Law and the English Language and Foundation Studies Centre. The campus is located in the Sydney CBD.
The University of Newcastle Australia has a student population of just over 30,300 (including part time students) as of 2008, including 6773 international students from more than 115 countries.The University of Newcastle Australia is recognised for its commitment to equity in education and consistently enrols more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders than any other Australian university. The University of Newcastle Australia has also graduated more than 60% of the nation's indigenous doctors.Students at the The University of Newcastle Australia Callaghan Campus of the university are represented by the Newcastle University Students' Association (NUSA), UoN Services Limited (UoN Services), Newcastle University Postgraduate Student Association (NUPSA); while students at Ourimbah Campus are represented by Campus Central.
The University of Newcastle Australia library consists of numerous libraries across a number of the university’s campuses. This includes The Auchmuty library, The Huxley library, The Ourimbah library and the City Precinct library. The largest of these libraries is The Auchmuty Library on the The University of Newcastle Australia Callaghan campus which holds a significant traditional collection, including rare books and archives. In addition to The Auchmuty library, the Callaghan campus has a smaller secondary library known as The Huxley library. The Huxley library primarily supports a collection for a number of schools, including education, nursing, and fine arts. The Ourimbah library on the Central Coast campus holds a collection of both university and TAFE texts to facilitate the needs of the joint campus. An information common similar to the one located in the Auchmuty library is also available. The City Precinct library is also part of The University of Newcastle Australia library. The whole catalogue of the library is available across any of the libraries. The library is a member of the Council of Australian University Librarians. The University of Newcastle Australia library also holds New South Wales state archives that have been held by the university since 1975. The state archives reside within the University Archives and consists of a collection of approximately 600 linear shelf metres.
The University of Newcastle Australia offers access to a number of sporting facilities across its campuses. The Callaghan campus has the majority of these facilities; this includes six sporting ovals, squash & tennis courts, and a sports and aquatic centre. The University of Newcastle Australia sports manages these facilities through an organisation known as "The Forum"."The Forum Sports & Aquatic Centre, University" boasts an olympic-sized swimming pool, one of the highest climbing walls in the country, and various other sporting facilities. It is also the site of training for sport teams including the Newcastle Knights from National Rugby League (NRL), the Newcastle Jets from the A-League and the Hunter Hurricanes National League Water Polo team. The Forum also has a centre near the Newcastle CBD known as "The Forum, Harbourside".
The University of Newcastle Australia Address
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