Charles Darwin University

university, Northern Territory, Australia

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Charles Darwin University (CDU) is a public university located in the Northern Territory, Australia. It was formed in 2003 through the merger of the Northern Territory University with several vocational institutions. CDU has branch campuses in the territory's larger cities and offers both higher education and technical/further education courses. The university also operates the Adult Migrant English Programme, providing language instruction for immigrants. The Northern Territory itself is Australia's least populous mainland territory, with its capital and chief port being Darwin, situated on the coast of the Timor Sea.12

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…of Alice Springs, to form Charles Darwin University; there are branch campuses in the territory’s larger cities. The multicampus Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education, also the product of amalgamation of several earlier institutions and programs, was launched in 1999 to provide higher education and additional training opportunities for indigenous…
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…of Alice Springs, to form Charles Darwin University; there are branch campuses in the territory’s larger cities. The multicampus Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education, also the product of amalgamation of several earlier institutions and programs, was launched in 1999 to provide higher education and additional training opportunities for indigenous…
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