The Parker Centre has a strong education and training role. Its innovative and effective education activities have the objective of training university students and offering technical and professional development courses for industry professionals and research staff within the Centre. Thus the Education Program is centred around the Honours degree, the PhD degree and continuing education courses.

The Student-Industry Research Program provides research experience to Australian and international undergraduate students during their summer university vacation, with the aim of encouraging further studies in extractive metallurgy.

The Parker Centre is currently developing vocational training courses, in conjunction with TAFE Central, for processing plant operators and supervisors working in the minerals industry.

The Centre also runs educational activities for school students. In addition, the Teacher Outreach program, initiated in 2003 to run activities for high school science teachers in Western Australia, is now building new networks with science teachers in Brisbane and Gladstone in Queensland and in Darwin and Gove in the Northern Territory.

- Education Program Highlights of 2006-2007	- Courses for Industry Professionals/Parker Centre Researchers
- Scholarships: Honours, MSc and PhD	- The Parker Centre Hydrometallurgy Conferences
- Why Study in the Parker Centre?	- Parker Centre Science Conversations Seminar Series
- Courses for Parker Centre Students
- Other Information for Parker Centre Students	- Student-Industry Research Program for University Students
- List of Current Parker Centre Students	- Student-Industry-CRC Symposium
- Awards and Honours Won by Centre Students	- Outreach to High School Science Teachers
- Where Are Our Graduates Employed?	- Educational Activities for School Students
- Past PhD Students - Where Do They Go?

Gone Fishing for an Industry's Future
(report on the Parker Centre's innovative network of researchers, university educators, industry and high school science teachers that is helping to address the minerals industry's skills shortage in a global mineral resources boom: submitted for the 2005 CRC Association Awards for Excellence in Innovation in Education & Training)

EDUCATION PROGRAM MANAGER: DR JANE ROSSER