Muresk Institute

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The Muresk Institute is a department of Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia. It is an education and training provider in agribusiness and rural science and technology. It is managed by Gary Hepworth.

In earlier years it was known as Muresk Agricultural College.[1][2]

It offers courses at two campuses, one at Northam, 100 km east of Perth and the other on the main Bentley campus of Curtin in Perth. A third campus at Collie is used for aquaculture laboratory and research.

Teaching facilities include a 1,720 hectare working farm near Northam, field trial sites at Bentley and aquaculture facilities at Bentley, Fremantle, and Collie.

There are 500 students on the two campuses.

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  1. ^ Muresk Agricultural College (1976), Muresk 1926-1976, Muresk Agricultural College, retrieved 5 May 2012 
  2. ^ McLaren, Glen; Curtin University of Technology; Muresk Institute of Agriculture (2001), 75 years on : a history of the Muresk Institute of Agriculture, The Institute, Curtin University of Technology, ISBN 978-0-646-49990-1 

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