Minerals Tertiary Education Council Minerals Geoscience Honours Program

As a student enrolling in honours in 2010 at one of eight Australian Universities (Adelaide, ANU, Curtin, James Cook, Melbourne, Monash, UTas, UWA) you have the opportunity to participate in the Minerals Tertiary Education Council (MTEC) Minerals Geoscience Honours Program (MGH).

This program offers a choice of eight (8) short courses, located across the country, that are specifically designed to provide you with skills and knowledge relevant to future employment in the mining and exploration industry. Participation in the Minerals Geoscience Honours Program involves completing two (2) of the eight (8) courses, which in turn will contribute to the course work component of your honours degree. Depending on the structure of your degree it is also possible to take just one of the MTEC courses.

This website provides you with some information that will help you decide which of these minerals geoscience courses are right for you.

The Minerals Tertiary Education Council
(MTEC)

MTEC provides support to its partner universities to produce appropriately skilled graduates in minerals geoscience, mining engineering and metallurgy and to assist the Australian higher education sector to retain the capacity to be a world leader in minerals education.

The MTEC Minerals Geoscience Honours Program offers courses that teach a set of specialist skills that industry has identified graduates entering the minerals industry should possess. By taking any of these courses, delivered by experts in their field, you will learn some invaluable skills for a career in the minerals industry.

The minerals industry, through MTEC, has made a commitment to you by providing travel bursaries so that you can attend courses at other universities. MTEC also supports the program by providing advisory and financial support to its partner universities. We hope that you strongly consider a career in the minerals industry and enjoy the MTEC Minerals Geoscience Honours Program.