Abstract
The pandemic forced all businesses globally to rethink operations. Higher education institutions experienced similar disruptions, especially those with large cohorts of foreign students. The technology employed in the mining industries, it is evolving rapidly and requires novel and more specialized expertise in the face of an impending skilled labour shortage. This paper strategizes how mining education could improve and align with the needs of the mining industry and students, post-pandemic.
Highlights
It has been, and still is the case, that an ever-advancing global society is impossible without being totally dependent on extractive mineral industries
Society needs a circular mining economy, which may be difficult to achieve without some form of global oversight
Mines need to maximize production to maintain profitability and cannot be “turned off and on”, and for a circular mining economy a balance is needed between waste utilisation, recycling, repurposing and producing new mined product
Summary
Still is the case, that an ever-advancing global society is impossible without being totally dependent on extractive mineral industries. The current system of 12-14 weeks of contact time per semester would change to say only 4 to 6 weeks in one or two-week sections, allowing the student to work in their chosen mining resources career whilst obtaining a tertiary education. This would assist the future students by reducing the effective cost of obtaining their degree and help their employers by creating truly job ready and fully trained graduates. The overall result has not been as effective as contact classroom delivery but it has been adequate
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