Short Course Awards
Australia Awards Short Course Awards
The Australia Awards Short Course Awards are short courses tailored to develop knowledge and skills, address priority human resource development areas and build partnerships and linkages between Australian organisations and partner organisations in developing countries.
The short courses are designed to provide leaders and professionals from the public service, private sector and civil society in Papua New Guinea to study a short course with an Australian university, TAFE, or Registered Training Organisation (RTO).

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Human resources play a vital role in professional organisations’ critical planning and workforce development. To develop skills and leadership in this key area, 24 participants from a range of sectors across Papua New Guinea attended a 12-week Human Resource...
Improving health infrastructure in Popondetta
It has been four years since Petra Goviro Suma completed the Australia Awards Short Course in Leadership and Management. Â Her studies have helped her improve the nursing and community health worker training facilities in her province, Oro, PNG. Petra completed the...
Short Course participants prepare to make positive health changes for PNG
The saying goes that health is everyone’s concern. The Governments of Papua New Guinea and Australia recognise this and have partnered to provide the Australia Awards short courses, Graduate Certificate in Health Economics and Certificate in Family and Child Health –...