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在澳大利亚,地球科学家们的第三次教育如同在其他国家一样是非常落后的。大学生的课程与30～50a前所开设的课程相差不大。研究生的课程则比大学生的课程更狭窄集中,同样也很落后,但工业生产和专业需要的变化却很大。在澳大利亚,大多数地学专业毕业生受聘于勘查和采矿部门,但他们的课程设置却很少注意到这一点,学校并没有尽力培养学生去适应市场。这可能是因为很少有学者具备高层次的工业生产经验,大多数学者,的确还有大多数勘查地质学家相信专业的实际应用可在工作中学习,许多学者没有注意到他们的学生所从事工作的具体需要。在澳大利亚,这种落后保守导致了在地球科学的新领域诸如风化物(层)研究方面仅勉强改进课程内容。结果许多新毕业生很少研究风化地层、风化物质或风化过程。但正是这一薄薄的覆盖在新鲜岩石上的风化层是矿产勘查的原始介质。近10a 来,矿产部门对风化物在勘查工作中的重要性的认识日益增加。但仅有几所地学院校在大学生中很有远见地开设了风化层课程,且对于研究生也只开设了涉及这一研究领域的少数几门课程。在澳大利亚,所有大学毕业生不管在哪儿(这里的厚风化层决定着地表景观)都应该熟悉风化物和其形态,因为这里到处都是风化层,这是地球上最常见的一部分。当然,风化层的研究是跨学科的,它是地壳上水圈、大气圈和生物圈与岩石圈相互作用的地带。大学生的课程(涉及到风化物研究的)必须要有自然和物理的科学知识作为坚实的基础,尤其在风化物研究的应用方面更是如此。
In Australia, the third education for earth scientists is just as backward as in other countries. College students and 30 ~ 50a before the course offered by little difference. Graduate programs are more narrowly focused and under-trained than undergraduate programs, but changes in industrial production and professional needs are substantial. In Australia, most geoscientists are employed in the exploration and mining divisions, but their curricula are seldom aware of this, and the school did not try its best to develop students to adapt to the market. This may be because very few scholars have a high level of industrial experience. Most scholars, indeed, most survey geologists believe that professional practical applications can be learned at work and many scholars fail to notice what their students are doing The specific needs of work. In Australia, this backwardness has led to barely improving course content in new areas of geoscience such as weathering (stratum) research. As a result, many new graduates rarely study weathering formations, weathering materials, or weathering processes. But it is this thin weathering layer that covers fresh rock that is the original medium for mineral exploration. In the past 10 years, the mineral sector has become increasingly aware of the importance of weathering materials in its exploration work. However, only a few geoscientists are far-sighted about undergraduate courses in weathered bedding, and only a few courses for graduate students are involved in this area of study. In Australia, wherever college graduates go (where the thick layers of weathering determine the landscape of the surface) all weathering objects and their forms should be familiar as weathering is everywhere, the most common part of the planet. Of course, the research on weathered layers is interdisciplinary. It is a zone where the upper hydrosphere, the atmosphere, and the interaction between the biosphere and lithosphere in the crust. College students’ curricula (involving the study of weathering materials) must have a solid foundation of natural and physical scientific knowledge, especially in the application of weathering research.