Education
NICTA (National ICT Australia) works with universities to provide Australia with ICT researchers who have deep technical expertise supported by strong professional and business skills.
NICTA is working with its member and partner universities to provide an enhanced PhD program benchmarked to international standards. NICTA offers PhD students:
- Scholarship opportunities
- Facilitated access to advanced research and specialist coursework
- World-class supervision in a challenging and supportive environment
- Practical research, industry and domain experience, locally and internationally
- Professional skills development such as project management, commercialisation and communication
- Placement in a particular NICTA research program with the opportunity to work on state-of-the-art research
- Opportunities to work on development and commercialisation projects
- A possible research pathway to commercialisation
- Research internships and exchanges with international ICT research centres and universities
- World-class infrastructure.
While NICTA's educational activities are focused primarily on PhD-level students, opportunities also exist for various levels of engagement with a wide variety of students. These include:
- Short-term research projects for undergraduate students, for example, the NICTA Summer Scholars Program, which offers summer scholarships
- Undergraduate thesis supervision, including honours scholarships
- Intensive short courses for graduates in industry to provide an introduction to NICTA’s research agenda.
NICTA is also working with its partner universities to support outreach programs aimed at attracting pre-tertiary students into ICT with a particular focus on trying to encourage more women to enter the industry.