Senior Overseas Military Officers to Join Inaugural Academic Program

Senior military officers from China and Vietnam will be among the participants in the inaugural academic program of the new Australian Defence College at Weston to begin this month.

The announcement was made recently by Mr Ross Thomas, the Director of Studies at the Australian Defence College, at a ceremony to mark the awarding of a contract to the University of New South Wales to provide academic services to the college.

This will be the first time that senior military officers from either country will take part in a defence education program in Australia.

The contract provides for tuition to be presented on the development of Australian strategic policy and will form part of a year-long course at the Weston Creek college for senior Australian and foreign military personnel.

Mr Thomas said that the University of New South Wales had won the contract as a result of a tendering process that included submissions from a number of other universities.

"The University of New South Wales has an excellent record of achievement in the development and delivery of study programs to the Defence organisation and we are pleased that our relationship will continue" Mr Thomas said.

The Australian Defence College, which officially opens on January 18 1999, has nearly sixty participants from eighteen different countries in the inaugural academic program. Air Vice Marshal Brendan O'Loghlin, AO, has been appointed Principal of the ADC.

Further information . . .

Mr Ross Thomas: (02) 6266 0601
Director of Studies, Australian Defence College

Issued by the Defence Public Affairs Organisation, Department of Defence, Canberra, ACT, 2600

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