A collaborative mapping approach – framing an engineering pathway

Regional Australian higher education institutions play a vital role for regional students study opportunities in various aspects. The regional educational institutions support students to enhance learning and teaching, research and community engagement. This adds more prosperity to the nations international eduation identity. Engineering Pathways for Regional Australia (EPRA) is an office of learning and teaching (OLT) government funded project to the partnership of six Australian higher education institutions which includes University of Tasmania (UTAS), Deakin University, University of Southern Queensland (USQ), Tas TAFE, tafeSA and Geraldton universities centre. It is a consortium of regional higher education and Vocational education & training who provides a learning platform for engineering. It helps students who has not completed high school to acquire a pathway to become an engineering Associate graduate through cross-institutional enrolment and shared credit acceptance on selected units mapped by EPRA institutions.