A Program Theory Approach

The Queensland University of Technology (QUT), like other Australian Universities, is seeking to advance collaboration across external boundaries through “community engagement ” in response to policies at National and State levels that invoke rationales such as resource efficiency and coherence in regional educational delivery. As a result, an alliance of regional education sector providers including QUT established the Northern Corridor Education Precinct (NCEP) in 2001. The alliance recognised that no individual provider, organisation or community can fully deliver a complete learning experience in isolation. In an environment of changing education landscape the NCEP has reaffirmed that it exists to develop and provide cross-sectoral leadership by introducing and maximising a co-ordinated approach to learning for our community. While these goals have been formulated as a means of operationalising regional level initiatives, QUT’s articulated organisational strategic requirement is to identify and operationalise ‘best practice ’ standards. Meaning a clearer framework an