UNE Tamworth Initiatives

UNE is committed to empowering our community by creating and sharing knowledge to make a difference locally, regionally and globally. We do this through transformative teaching, learning and research, informed by our engagement which reflects the unique aspirations of each community. We plan to achieve our goals through a set of integrated strategic initiatives which span UNE’s academic, corporate, community and partner activities. These initiatives are part of a series of rolling, focussed plans that provide a roadmap to operationalise the goals of UNE’s Strategic Plan for Tamworth. Details are available from the links below.

Rapt - Unleash Your Potential

Tamworth NSW

Preparing resilient Nurses and Teachers for challenging careers in our region.

UNE, deeply committed to both its students and the region, recognises the vital role played by its Tamworth campus in fostering a community where learning flourishes. The launch of RaPT marks a significant milestone in UNE’s commitment.

Our objective is to provide "wrap around support" and create a local community of learning, wellbeing & resiliency in Tamworth for our UNE Nursing & Education students.

For more information and updates visit our RaPT landing page.

Several images of people attending UNE Tamworth's RaPT launch event

RaPT Launch

Students, staff, and members of the Tamworth community came together to launch UNE Tamworth's exciting new program. UNE are looking forward to working with the community as we progress this program.

Water in the Landscape Initiative

The ISSUE

The slopes of the upper Namoi Valley are an important source of water into the Murray Darling system. Changing rainfall, temperatures, agriculture, industry, and livelihoods, and major policy changes to environmental, water, and agricultural governance, will affect our region. We will need better planning and community strategies to cope.

For more information and updates visit our Water in the Landscape Initiative page.

An image of a field of dry, brown grass, separated by a wire fence from a field of dark brown dirt A photo of a wet, muddy field.

Our challenge

Water does not recognise fences, only landscape management does. These photos, reflecting reality and consequence at the end of the 2015-19 drought in the high Upper Namoi catchment, intend no criticism. They look at a possible future and pose a question for us all – how can each one of us manage ourselves, our communities and our landscapes, wherever they may be in the Upper Namoi, to create a resilient water future for us all.