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SPECIAL OFFERS FOR UTS:ALUMNI MEMBERS THIS MONTH
20% discount during the 2006 Sydney Symphony season
SAVE on Musica Viva concert packages in 2006
Discounted IIDM membership for UTS alumni
ALUMNI EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES
First Annual New Alumni Drinks
UTS:Alumni Professional Development Seminar
UTS:Alumni Wine and Cheese Appreciation Evening
1986-7 GradDip TESOL Reunion
2006 UTS:Alumni Reception, Hong Kong
CITY2SURF 2006
ALUMNI NEWS
New online career forum for young professionals
SUPPORTING UTS
Supporting UTS
ALUMNI CAREERS & JOB OPPORTUNITIES
Online job vacancies for alumni
Interested in a career in IT?
Send us your career news
ALUMNI NETWORKS
Nursing Alumni Network
UK Alumni Network
ALUMNI SERVICES
20mb email storage account for alumni
Harbour sailing for $30
Discounts at the UTS Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic
Business facility in the Alumni & Development Office
UTS Union Fitness Centre at Broadway
LIFELONG LEARNING
Upcoming short courses at UTS
UTS NEWS AND INITIATIVES
Twenty-five years of inspiration for young women in engineering
UTS students prove wizards in online business simulation
UTS EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES
UTSpeaks lecture: Will there be fish?
Sydney Futures Twilight Symposia
Seminar: Inside the Forensic World
Public Sector Broadcasting - Lessons from the BBC & UK
20% discount for UTS:Alumni members during the 2006 Sydney Symphony season
UTS:Alumni and the Sydney Symphony are delighted to offer a 20% discount to UTS:Alumni members on selected concerts during the 2006 concert season. To book, just call Sydney Symphony Sales on 8215 4648, Monday to Friday 9am-5pm and quote ‘UTS:Alumni offer'. Stay tuned each month to see which concerts are discounted. Here's what's on offer during July and August:
Dianne Reeves
Three time Grammy Award-winner Dianne Reeves is only in Sydney for 3 concerts, so don’t miss one of the greatest jazz divas singing a tribute concert to Sarah Vaughan, accompanied by the Sydney Symphony. Tickets start at just $49 for UTS Alumni members.
Thursday 31st August, Friday 1st (excellent seats available) and Saturday 2nd September, 8pm, Sydney Opera House Concert Hall.
Night Journeys
Wallow in the luscious eroticism of late-Romantic music. Simone Young returns from the Hamburg Opera to conduct the Sydney Symphony through this heart-breaking and beautiful program featuring Schoenberg’s Transfigured Night, R Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration and an Australian premiere by Brett Dean, one of Australia’s most exciting composers. Tickets start from $45 for UTS:Alumni members.
Wednesday 9th, Friday 11th, Saturday 12th August 8pm, Sydney Opera House Concert Hall.
Symphony at the Movies
What would Star Wars be without John Williams’ exhilarating music? Experience the music that made you cry, shiver, laugh or swoon as Clive James guides us through an evening of unforgettable film music by Morricone, Copland and Herrmann, performed by the Sydney Symphony.
Thursday 27th and Saturday 29th July, 8pm, Sydney Opera House Concert Hall.
For more details please visit www.sydneysymphony.com
SAVE on Musica Viva concert packages in 2006
In conjunction with UTS:Alumni, Musica Viva is now offering UTS:Alumni members a 30% discount on a two or three concert package.*
Choose any two or three concerts from the Musica Viva 2006 season and pay only $110 or $159 respectively. That’s a saving of up to 30%!
To take advantage of this offer, please call 1800 688482 and quote ‘UTS:Alumni offer’.
For the full list of upcoming concerts by some of the world’s most talented and exciting performers in 2006 please visit www.musicaviva.com.au or request a brochure by calling 1800 688 482.
* Newcastle 2 pack$89/3 pack $129. Offer excludes Yvonne Kenny concerts.
Paul Lewis - 20% discount for UTS:Alumni on A and B reserve tickets
Protégé of the legendary Alfred Brendel, pianist Paul Lewis last appeared for Musica Viva with the Leopold String Trio in 2003. Since then he has received the Royal Philharmonic Society's Instrumentalist of the Year award and has been widely acclaimed as one of the great new talents of the century.
This all-Beethoven program is part of his larger project to record all of the Beethoven Piano Sonatas as well as perform them around the globe. The concert features two of Beethoven's most famous sonatas, the 'Appassionata' and the 'Moonlight', and is an ideal program for both the aficionado and those new to classical music.
Please quote the 'UTS:Alumni 20% offer' when booking your tickets. For dates and venues, please visit www.musicaviva.com.au 
Discounted IIDM membership for UTS:Alumni members
Join the International Institute of Directors and Managers (IIDM) today and receive a 20% discount. Membership of IIDM reflects a commitment and recognition of the need to continuously improve business knowledge, management and leadership skills. There are two levels of IIDM membership available:
FELLOW - more than ten years business management experience
MEMBER - up to ten years business management experience
As a member of IIDM, you are entitled to full and unlimited access to all the resources available on the CEO Online website, including the premium content of the IIDM Audio Seminar Series and CEOTV. In addition, IIDM members have the use of postnominals, and receive a certificate of membership.
Membership of IIDM can be applied for online - taking only minutes to complete your application. To apply, please subscribe, ensuring the sponsor ID (as shown below) corresponding to your applicable membership level (described above) is entered when completing your application. The Sponsor ID for each IIDM membership level is as follows:
FELLOW - utsfellow
MEMBER - utsmember
The following DISCOUNTED monthly subscription fee is payable monthly in advance, against your nominated credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Diners, Amex)
FELLOW - $17.60 (inc. GST) … normally $22.00
MEMBER - $15.84 (inc. GST) … normally $19.80
Should you have further questions, please visit IIDM - Frequently Asked Questions at the CEO Online web site www.ceoonline.com.au, telephone 03 9571 6902 or email: iidm@ceo.com.au
ALUMNI EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES
First Annual New Alumni Drinks - LAST CHANCE TO RSVP!
The First Annual New Alumni Drinks event on Thursday 20 July 2006 is fast approaching. With the chance to kick back to the funky sounds of a live band, one free drink per person between 5.30 and 6.30pm, yummy bar snacks aplenty AND lucky door prizes all on offer places are filling up fast!
RSVP TODAY SO YOU DON'T MISS OUT!
All alumni are welcome to attend this event. Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.
Date: Thursday 20 July 2006
Time: 5.30pm – 8.30pm
Venue: The Loft bar, city campus, Broadway
Cost: Free (one free drink per person between 5.30 - 6.30pm, then all drinks at usual cheap UTS union prices)
RSVP ESSENTIAL to UTS:Alumni
T: 02 9514 8036
F: 02 9514 8033
E: alumni@uts.edu.au
UTS:Alumni Professional Development Seminar - Leading with Emotional Intelligence
On Wednesday 2 August, UTS:Alumni will host the third Professional Development Seminar for 2006: Leading with Emotional Intelligence, presented by Mr Paul Vorbach, Executive Director, Academy Global.
Date: Wednesday 2 August 2006
Time: 6pm for 6.30pm
Cost: $20 per person
Venue: Level 6, Gallery Function Centre, UTS Tower, Broadway
More details: http://www.alumni.uts.edu.au/events/profdev02082006.html
Enquiries: alumni@uts.edu.au
UTS:Alumni Wine and Cheese Appreciation Evening
On Tuesday 8 August, The UTS Alumni & Development Office will host the 2nd Wine and Cheese Appreciation Evening for 2006. The event will feature specially selected wines from premium wine growing regions across Australia, as well as a series of cheeses to match each wine tasted.
Date: Tuesday 8 August 2006
Time: 6pm to 8pm
Venue: Sky Room, level 9, Blacket Hotel, 70 King Street, Sydney
Cost: $35 per person
More details: http://www.alumni.uts.edu.au/events/080806wineandcheese.html
Enquiries: alumni@uts.edu.au
1986-7 GradDip TESOL Reunion
Survivors of the 1986-87 GradDip TESOL course are invited to a lunch marking two decades since the 1986 intake. 1987 graduates Fran Munro and Peter Fenton are proposing lunch at a Portugese restaurant in Petersham on Saturday 21 October 2006. If Dorothy, Joy or Gabe are reading this then please feel free to attend.
RSVP by 25 September 2006 to either Fran Munro: Frances.Munro@tafensw.edu.au or Peter Fenton at: wjoseph1@optusnet.com.au
2006 UTS:Alumni Reception, Hong Kong
The Renaissance Harbour View Hotel is the venue for the 2006 UTS:Alumni Reception in Hong Kong.
Date: Saturday 15 July 2006, 6.30pm
Venue: Oasis Room, 8th Floor, Renaissance Harbour View Hong Kong
More details: http://www.alumni.uts.edu.au/events/150706alumnireceptionhk.html
CITY2SURF 2006
Do you want to be part of the UTS team at Australia's most famous annual fun run?
When: Sunday 13 August 2006
Where: Sydney City to Bondi Beach
Entry cost: $35.00 adults, $25.00 children (includes a UTS shirt)
Shirts can be collected from the UTS tent on the day. Even if you don’t join the UTS team UTS:Alumni members can still access the UTS tent.
For more details please email: city2surf@uts.edu.au
ALUMNI NEWS
New online career forum for young professionals
UTS alumni Peter Pychtin (MBA 1985) has established a new online forum to help young professionals advance their careers. www.youngprofessional.com.au is an independent site for career experts and young professionals alike to provide valuable insights and share experiences with their peers.
Following a corporate career spanning global organisations in Australia, the US and Canada, Peter Pychtin recently built a successful graduate and young professional recruitment business, chairs the not-for-profit Live 'N' Learn Foundation and leads a web based technology and marketing company.
SUPPORTING UTS
Supporting UTS
A special thank you to all the alumni members and UTS staff members who supported the recent appeal for the UTS scholarship fund. Thanks to the generosity of the many UTS alumni and staff who have given to the fund, our University will be able to help more students who might otherwise not have been able to commence or complete their studies.
If you would like to support the UTS scholarship fund please visit the UTS:Alumni website to download a donation form. Donations to the UTS scholarship fund are tax deductible.
ALUMNI CAREERS & JOB OPPORTUNITIES
Online job vacancies for alumni
UTS:Alumni members can now search for job vacancies online via the UTS Careers Service website http://138.25.124.210/scm/jobw.
You will need to log on using your alumni email account details. If you do not have an alumni email account please register with UTS:Alumni and we will then send you details on how to set up the account.
For more details please contact the Careers Service http://www.ssu.uts.edu.au/careers/index.html telephone +612 9514 1471 or email careers@uts.edu.au
Interested in a career in IT?
Indigo Pacific, one of Asia Pacific's fastest growing systems integrators, has Graduate Analyst Programmer positions available in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne. You'll be involved in a variety of client projects delivering eForms and workflow solutions to a wide variety of industries including finance & government. There are also some more senior positions available.
Please visit the careers page at http://www.indigopacific.com/company/jobs.htm and then send your resume to jobs@indigopacific.com if you are interested in applying.
Send us your career news
Please keep us updated with your career news, or any achievements and awards you may have received. We are preparing our next publication and would love to hear from you.
Email your career news to alumni@uts.edu.au
ALUMNI NETWORKS
Nursing Alumni Network
UTS is starting a Nursing Alumni Network as a way of providing networking opportunities for personal and career development and for binding nursing, midwifery and health graduates back to UTS. Several graduates have already expressed an interest in joining the Network.
For more information, please contact Kate Kirk, Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Health, telephone: 02 9514 5044 email: kate.kirk@uts.edu.au
Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health website: www.nmh.uts.edu.au
UK Alumni Network
Living in the UK? Like to stay in contact with other alumni?
A number of UK-based UTS alumni are interested in forming a UK Alumni Network. If you or any other UTS alumni you are in contact with are interested in becoming involved, then please send your current contact details to the Alumni & Development Office. We will then be able to help reconnect you with fellow UTS alumni living in the UK, and send you notifications of any upcoming events.
ALUMNI SERVICES
20mb email storage account for alumni
UTS:Alumni is pleased to announce that UTS now offers all graduates access to a unique your.name@alumni.uts.edu.au email address with 20mb storage.
This FREE email account can be accessed from anywhere in the world via UTS Webmail: www.uts.edu.au/email
For more details please visit the UTS:Alumni website.
Harbour sailing for $30
Enjoy a beautiful afternoon of sailing on Sydney Harbour with up to 5 friends on Impulse, UTS Union's skippered yacht.
When: Friday and Sunday afternoons (all year round except for public holidays)
Time: 1 to 4pm
Venue: Double Bay Sailing Club
Cost: $30 students, staff & alumni, $40 others (includes 3 hour sail & skipper)
For bookings or more details, please contact the Recreation Officer:
T: +612 9514 1889
E: unionsports@uts.edu.au
Alumni discounts at the UTS Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic
At UTS' Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Clinic UTS:Alumni members can now access acupuncture, chinese remedial massage (tuina), and chinese herbal medicine services at the student and staff rate.Treatment is by 4th year TCM students under the full supervision of experienced traditional chinese medicine practitioners.
The clinic is located on the ground floor of the new science building (building 4) on Harris Street, Ultimo. For more information (including bookings) please call 9514 2509.
For more details please visit the TCM website: www.science.uts.edu.au/centres/tcm/clinics.html
IMPORTANT: When booking please mention you are a UTS:Alumni member and show your membership card when you attend the clinic.
Business facility in the Alumni & Development Office
Registered members are invited to use the business centre in the Alumni & Development Office. If you would like to make a booking, please contact us on +612 9514 8036.
To register with UTS:Alumni please visit www.alumni.uts.edu.au
UTS Union Fitness Centre at Broadway
As a UTS:Alumni member you are entitled to student rates at the UTS Union fitness centre. Visit the centre on Harris Street for a work out, or join one of the many fitness classes including aerobics, yoga, circuit training and pilates.
For further information, T: +612 9514 2444
Strategic Planning Principles
This course is part of the AFA AdSchool Program: advertising short courses offered by the Advertising Federation of Australia in conjunction with UTS. This course examines the historic development and current approaches to strategic planning for marketing communications. It provides an overview to the theory of developing effective consumer based communications and their role in developing commercially successful brands. This course provides theoretical and practical understanding of the pivotal link that the planning function plays between marketing objectives, consumer insights and creative development and evaluation.
More details: http://www.shortcourses.uts.edu.au/code/coursedetails.php?&sc_code=AFA9
Integrated Brand Management
This course is part of the AFA AdSchool Program: advertising short courses offered by the Advertising Federation of Australia in conjunction with UTS. Strong brands are powerful drivers of shareholder value. Advertising agencies play an important role in creating and building a product's brand across a wide variety of markets. This course examines how brands are built and managed, how brand positions in the market are evaluated and how brand values are determined. Participants will look at the concept of brand integration across the various media and mediums, from mass to niche and target marketing, to consumer, trade, media and staff marketing.
More details: http://www.shortcourses.uts.edu.au/code/coursedetails.php?&sc_code=AFA2
Conflict Resolution
Conflict does not have to be destructive and detrimental - it can be creative and dynamic. It is how it is dealt with when it occurs that determines whether the conflict will be a positive or negative experience. This course aims to facilitate the knowledge and skills to:
- Understand the nature of conflict
- Recognise the challenges and opportunities inherent in conflict
- Resolve conflict effectively by using practical strategies and tactics
- Improve long-term relationships in the workplace and create better business outcomes.
More details: http://www.shortcourses.uts.edu.au/code/coursedetails.php?&sc_code=CONFLCTRES
Website Technologies
The World Wide Web has grown at a phenomenal rate over the last few years. This growth has been reflected in the widespread adoption of Web technologies (especially for commercial purposes). This course focuses on the diverse set of technologies that underpin the Web and how these technologies relate to each other.
More details: http://www.shortcourses.uts.edu.au/code/coursedetails.php?&sc_code=ITCO15
UTS NEWS AND INITIATIVES
Twenty-five years of inspiration for young women in engineering
With 25 years of advocacy behind it The University of Technology Sydney's Women in Engineering (WiE) program has been lauded as one of the main reasons many Australian female engineers chose the profession.
The only remaining program of its kind at an Australian university, UTS Women in Engineering was celebrated by more than 200 people in June 2006 at a gala dinner attended by alumni, past WiE coordinators, Faculty of Engineering staff and students and representatives of industry sponsors and employers including Arup, Accenture, Alstom, IBM, Cisco Systems, Alcatel and Maunsell.
UTS students prove wizards in online business simulation
While other online gamers have been busy collecting magic items or gunning down opponents, MBA students from the UTS Faculty of Business have been besting the top business schools from the USA and Europe in a worldwide online business strategy simulation.
For two years running UTS teams have placed among the grand champions in The Business Strategy Game (BSG), an online competition run by US publisher McGraw-Hill Irwin that attracts a worldwide field of more than 12,000 students divided into thousands of teams.
UTS EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES
UTSpeaks lecture: Will there be fish?
Many species of marine life in our oceans are under threat or face extinction from commercial and recreational fishing. Yet millions of people daily rely on seafood just to survive. How will science, industry and government combine to ensure this rich source of life, food and income is preserved for future generations?
In this free public lecture, UTS marine researcher David Booth will give an urgent report card on the health of our marine species and discuss current debate on Australia's newest marine parks. Marine Stewardship Council co-presenter Duncan Leadbitter will share the significant progress being made to create a sustainable global seafood industry.
Date: Thursday 27 July 2006
Time: 6.00pm Drinks for 6.30pm start
Venue: Guthrie Theatre, Level 3, Peter Johnson Building, 702-730 Harris St Ultimo
Free Parking - Peter Johnson Building basement car park, 702-730 Harris St Ultimo
RSVP: By Wednesday 26 July 2006 to Robert Button Tel: 02 9514 1734 Email: robert.button@uts.edu.au
Sydney Futures Twilight Symposia
Sydney is a global metropolis sliding into chaos. A beautiful city with a declining infrastructure, a city once characterised by its concerns for social justice, it is now harder to live in, unhealthier, more dangerous, more expensive, and far less equitable than its potential holds.
In a desire to stimulate debate among citizens about the future of our city and its region, the University of Technology, Sydney is sponsoring six twilight symposia focusing on critical issues in the city's future.
August's symposium, Creating the city: arts culture and the cosmopolis, features pannelists David Throsby, Peter Murphy, Tiffany Lee-Shoy and examines how global cities are concentrations of creativity - with creativity drawing investment, population demand, and feeding on this growth. Can Sydney develop further as a global creative city and what will it take?
Date: 24 August 2006, 4pm to 7pm
Location: City - Broadway, CB04. Level 2 (entrance on Harris Street), Room 38
Price: $22 per event, series of six $110
More details: Ruby Seaward +61 2 9514 9933
For more details or to register, please visit the DAB website.
Seminar: Inside the Forensic World
This seminar is open to anyone wanting to learn more about the real world of forensic science, policing and law. It is especially designed to help high school and university students learn more of these career areas and make more informed choices. The lectures will be presented by prominent professionals in the field and will include interesting casework. Please note that some material may be graphic, hence a 16 years + age restriction.
Date: Saturday 15 July 2006
Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Venue: The University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) Broadway Campus
Cost: $30 per person - this includes a morning tea /coffee break.
More details: http://www.forensics.edu.au/article.php?sid=383
Public Sector Broadcasting - Lessons from the BBC & UK
Georgina Born, author of Uncertain Vision: Birt, Dyke and the Reinvention of the BBC (2005), will be speaking at a free public lecture at UTS on Tuesday 8 August.
Born will outline the challenges faced by the BBC over the last ten years, including its commercial direction, organisational changes and embrace of digital activities and will attempt to read the 'tea leaves' for the BBC. Parallels with Australia and what is happening in the Australian public sector broadcasting will also be explored.
If you work in the media in Australia you should not miss this lecture from a world expert in public sector broadcasting.
Date: Tuesday 8 August 2006
Location: University of Technology, Sydney, Broadway campus (exact venue to be announced shortly)
Time: 6 pm
More details: UTS: Australian Centre for Independent Journalism website http://www.acij.uts.edu.au/