Flinders Uni's Degree Apprenticeships: Paid Gigs & Top Degrees

0:00Flanders University in South Australia is shaking up higher ed with degree apprenticeships where students earn a paycheck while knocking out a fool. A creditate uni degree. They kicked it off in 2025 with mechanical engineering, placing nine apprentices at Defense Giant ASE to tackle shortages in. Manufacturing, renewables, and infrastructure. The program's blowing up fast with 23 spots opening in 2026, 17 mechanical engineering, and six in electrical and electronic engineering linked to defense and construction bosses. Civil engineering joins the mix in 2027, backed by big infrastructure projects like the River Torrance to Darlington Pipeline. Students are loving the real world grind, jumping from lectures to workshops and back, building skills for jobs and renewables, defense, and smart. Tech is drawing school levers and mature folks alike, even letting year 12 kids at new technical colleges start uni prep early for guaranteed spots. Industry heavyweights like ASE,

1:03BAE systems, and Redark are all in, co-designing courses and handing out real responsibilities. Flanders is scaling this to PhDs embedded in companies too, pumping out innovators for biotech, defense, and sustainability. This models priming South Australia for tomorrow's economy, blending paid gigs, top tiered degrees, and hands-on experience into one powerhouse path. That employers and grads can't get enough of. I'm Corey with The Story, and you've been listening to Adelaide News today, AI-powered local news.