An aerial view of the Lincoln University campus.
KUCHING: Lincoln University is New Zealand’s specialist land-based university – a global leader in primary-sector science and business with a proud history.
For more than 135 years, the institution has been providing high-quality teaching and research aligned to the key commercial, environmental and societal interests of New Zealand and the wider world. This history has provided the foundation for recent initiatives and developments designed to ensure that it could meet various global challenges head-on.
One such initiative is a university-wide qualifications reform aimed at ensuring that Lincoln University’s programmes would remain 21st-century relevant and in tune with the unique practical needs of the industry. For more information on these new programmes, visit www.lincoln.ac.nz.
According to a statement from the university, it is estimated that around 20 per cent of New
Zealand’s labour force is working in some facets of land-based industries.
“These specialist strengths include agricultural science, food science, agribusiness and food marketing, environmental management, tourism management, as well as in commercial-based sectors such as supply chain management, global trade and food and resource economics.
“Standing as a ringing endorsement of the contributions that the institution has made and will continue making for land-based sector industries, the university has received an in-principle commitment from the New Zealand government for NZ$107.5 million, to go towards the building of new science facilities.
“This investment means that the realisation of continuous improvements in producing and delivering the kind of science, technology and business outcomes that contribute so significantly to the New Zealand economy – outcomes that can be exported to other tertiary institutions and economies around the world,” the statement said.
It also stated that part of this government investment would be contingent on the university fully integrating these new science facilities, with the needs of its research partners in the upcoming Lincoln Hub – a major infrastructure development project expected to be among the most globally significant research centres in the Southern Hemisphere.
Recent developments have also seen Lincoln University being included in the ‘QS World University Rankings Top 500 Universities’ overall, and ‘Top 100’ in the field of agriculture and forestry, as well as becoming a member of the prestigious Euroleague for Life Sciences.
“All these things, coupled with an overall reawakening among the general population as to the scope, importance and opportunities inherent in the land-based industries, mean that the university is uniquely positioned to capitalise further on its specialist strengths.”
Lincoln University is one of the institutions participating in this year’s Borneo Post International Education Fair (BPIEF) under Education New Zealand, alongside UC International College, University of Otago, University of Waikato, Otago Polytechnic and Southern Institute of Technology.
BPIEF 2015 will run from March 21 to 22, 10am to 6pm daily at Borneo Convention Centre Kuching.