e:Connect March 2007
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THIS MONTH'S SPECIAL OFFERS FOR YOU e-Communities can earn you Dymocks Dollars! HURRY! LAST DAYS of 20% off Musica Viva Artemis Quartet |
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2007 UTS Alumni Awards Reception |
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LIFELONG LEARNING AT UTS |
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CONSIDER SUPPORTING SCHOLARSHIPS AT UTS |
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Beautiful Minds: 100 years of Nobel creativity |
| ALUMNI BENEFITS |
Log on to the UTS:Alumni online interactive member area
Your e-Business Directory and e:Communities are now online!
To better connect alumni members and promote networking, UTS:Alumni has launched your online interactive member area. The member area features an e-Business Directory where you can list your business or professional details FREE of charge. Plus you can view and update your details as they appear in our database and join alumni networks.
The e-Business Directory is just the beginning, e-Communities is now online too.
e-Communities is an online service to help alumni meet and network with fellow UTS graduates all over the world. You'll be able to chat online to help solve professional problems, or just catch up and keep in touch with each other and your UTS faculty. It's also a great way to find out about professional career development and employment opportunities.
To access these features, simply login at www.members.alumni.uts.edu.au
If you are not yet registered with UTS:Alumni, register now! Membership is FREE and available to all graduates of UTS and its antecedent organisations.
For a full list of UTS:Alumni benefits, please visit the Member Benefits section on the UTS:Alumni website.
| ALUMNI NEWS |
UTS alumni joint winners of the 2006 Wanda Jamrozik Prize
UTS:Alumni congratulates MA Journalism graduates Lyndon Barnett and Jeanti St Clair on their joint win of the 2006 Wanda Jamrozik Prize.
This $1,000 prize honours and celebrates the life and achievements of the late Wanda Jamrozik, a journalist with a passion for social justice, ethnic affairs and sport.
Lyndon Barnett won it for his documentary, 'Act with compassion', on activism in support of asylum seekers; Jeanti St Clair for her report 'Going native', which explores the experience of four Australian foreign correspondents working in South east Asia.
Congratulations Lyndon and Jeanti!
Pool of Knowledge
The little-known stories of the more than 100 ocean pools that are dotted around the rocky NSW coast, have been brought together in a website by UTS PhD graduate, Marie-Louise McDermott.
The website catalogues each of the baths with photos and a timeline of events. A list of wide-ranging topics on the history of the baths is also included. Here you can read how bathing in the nineteenth century provided people with the "novel sensation of having their skin cleansed all over." Significant people who contributed to the development of ocean baths such as Henry Alexander Wylie, and those who frequented the baths such as Australia's first female Olympic gold medallist for swimming, Fanny Durack, are also listed.
McDermott hopes that the website will "remind people that ocean pools are important learn-to-swim venues and safer swimming places than un-patrolled beaches."
For more information, visit www.nswoceanbaths.info
e-Business Directory Bettie Page Winners
UTS:Alumni congratulates Nicholas Adkins, Melissa Azizi, Peter Gould, Riccardo Leggio, Chamy Leung, David McGregor, Kirsten Pines, Jill Riddiford, Peter Tran and John Tyler, all winners of double passes to see The Notorious Bettie Page.
We hope you enjoy the film!
| ALUMNI EVENTS |
UTSpeaks Free Lecture
UTS is pleased to invite you to the first free lecture in the 2007 series - UTSpeaks: Opportunity in Crisis - Are green credentials now a key driver of successful business?, with distinguished Professor Dexter Dunphy and introduced by Maria Atkinson, Global Head of Sustainability at Lend Lease Corporation.
A serious turning point has been reached in the relationship between human consumption and global ecosystems. Corporations and governments are heeding alarm bells that many industries must adopt sustainable practices or propel the world's nations into environmental and social disaster. To date, the daunting task of creating a sustainable basis for human survival has been viewed mainly in terms of costs.
Drawing on inspiring examples from Australia and world-wide, this free public lecture explores the opportunities that are at hand for Australian business to respond profitably to growing environmental and social crises, contributing to sustainable solutions by achieving more with less.
Date: Thursday 15 March
Time: 6pm drinks for 6.30pm start
Venue: Guthrie Theatre, Level 3 Peter Johnson Building, 702-730 Harris St, Ultimo
RSVP: Wednesday 14 March 2007 to Robert Button
E. robert.button@uts.edu.au or T. 02 9514 1734
Please click here to download your invitation.
Free Parking: Peter Johnson Building basement car park, 702-730 Harris St, Ultimo.
Introduced by: Maria Atkinson, Global Head of Sustainability, Lend Lease Corporation.
UTSPEAKS: is a free public lecture series presented by UTS experts discussing a range of important issues confronting contemporary Australia.
UTS Australian Centre for Independent Journalism FREE Public Talk
Leading Beirut writer, journalist and editor Bilal Khbeiz, will be speaking at UTS Thursday 15 March.
Bilal Khbeiz, journalist and editor of the cultural section of Lebanon's largest newspaper An-Nahar, is at the forefront of a group of cutting edge Beirut writers and artists and will be speaking at UTS about how events can destroy media tools.
Bilal has published several books on post-war Lebanon including the recent Globalisation and the Manufacture of Transient Events and The Enduring Image and the Vanishing World and has participated in numerous international festivals.
Date: Thursday 15 March
Time: 6pm
Venue: UTS Broadway Campus, Building 6 room 322 (enter from Harris Street)
Presented by: UTS Australian Centre for Independent Journalism (ACIJ).
For more information visit www.acij.uts.edu.au or phone 9514 2295
Bilal's visit to Australia has been organised through the Writing & Society Research Group at the University of Western Sydney and the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, with the support of Marrickville Council.
Drinks with 'Sam and the City'
Join Sam Brett, author of the hugely popular Sydney Morning Herald dating blog, 'Sam and the City' for drinks at UTS!
Come and listen to author and UTS alumnus, Sam Brett's story of determination to follow her dream from school girl to TV reporter for Fox News in New York, to Sydney Morning Herald columnist.
Come and share a drink, catch up with friends and learn successful dating tips first hand from Sam!
Listen to author and UTS alumnus, Sam Brett's story of determination to follow her dream from school girl to TV reporter for Fox News in New York, to Sydney Morning Herald columnist.
Sam is in her early 20's, and this accomplished author, journalist, TV and radio presenter has only just begun!
Time: 6pm
Date: Tuesday 20 March
Location: UTS Gallery, Level 4, Building 6, 702 Harris Street, Ultimo
Cost: $10.00
RSVP: RSVP and payment essential by Friday 16 March to
E. alumni@uts.edu.au or F. 9514 8033
To register for this event, please download the invitation here.
This event is open to UTS Alumni and their guests. Please email this invitation to other UTS Alumni you know who might like to attend.
Seven Steps needed to build your Social Capital
Do you want to build your social capital to gain extraordinary personal and career leverage?
Then come and share a drink with other UTS alumni and let Academy Global, Executive Director Paul Vorbach, take you through the 'Seven Steps needed to build your social capital' including:
- What is social capital?
- Why does it matter?
- How can it be measured?
- How can you build it?
Date: Thursday 22 March
Time: 6pm for 6.25pm start
Cost: $20 with refreshments included
Venue: Gallery Function Centre, Level 6, Tower Building 1, Broadway
RSVP: RSVP and payment essential by Thursday 15 March
E. alumni@uts.edu.au T. 9514 8036 or F. 9514 8033
To register for this professional development seminar, please click here.
Please forward this email to any UTS Alumni who may be interested in this event.
UTS:Alumni Information Technology Network Drinks
Do you want to re-connect with your fellow UTS IT Alumni? Then come to drinks at The Loft on Thursday 29 March.
The UTS:Alumni & Development Office is dedicated to helping re-connect UTS IT alumni and faculty members through the formation of the UTS:Alumni Information Technology Network.
Your first Network event provides this opportunity, so come along and share a drink with other IT graduates!
UTS:Alumni Information Technology Network Drinks
Date: Thursday 29 March
Time: 6pm
Venue: The Loft Bar, First Floor, UTS Broadway
RSVP: RSVP by Friday 23 March
E. alumni@uts.edu.au T. 9514 0836 or F. 9514 8033
Post: PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007
To download your invitation, please click here.
For further information on this event, please visit http://www.alumni.uts.edu.au/
If you know of a UTS graduate who has not received an invitation, please ask them to email or telephone / fax the UTS: Alumni & Development Office on the numbers above.
We look forward to seeing you at the Loft.
Disco Baroque at the UTS Gallery
The UTS Gallery invites you to the current exhibition: DISCO BAROQUE
On show until 30 March 2007
Monday - Friday 12 - 6pm
UTS Gallery
Level 4, 702 Harris Street, Ultimo
Disco Baroque is a kaleidoscopic synaesthesic experience, a vertiginous rollercoaster ride through the mirrorball realm of glitter and shine.
This exhibition engages with contemporary notions relating to the disco culture of the 1970's merged with the ideas of the historical Baroque period.
Artists: Eleanor Avery, James Avery, Luis Nobre, Giles Ryder, Johannes Vogl, Phil Williams
Career Planning Workshop - Thursday April 5, 2007
"How to survive postgraduate program"
The UTS:Business Network is proud to present a special half-day intensive and practical workshop to help you build and refine your career development.
Career Planning Workshop - Gear up to a successful career!
This is a hands-on practical workshop coming from three industry experts.
The UTS: Business Network is holding a special half-day intensive and practical workshop to help you build and refine your career development.
By attending this workshop you will:
- Learn how to develop an outstanding CV;
- Be able write an effective cover letter;
- Know how to elevator pitch yourself in a competitive job market;
- Understand how networking creates your career success;
- Get an insight of how successful people develop their career paths.
Date: Thursday 5 April
Time: 12:30 - 6:30pm
Venue: Room B517, Level 5, Building 5
Graduate School of Business
1-50 Quay Street, Ultimo
Cost: member/student - $35; non-member - $50
RSVP: Business Network by Friday 30 March
Speaker Biographies
Jason Borrie, BCom, Principal, Hamilton Partners Executive Search
Originally from New Zealand, Jason has held significant consulting and leadership roles in the recruitment industry since 1995. Following an early banking career, he spent 10 years with one of the world's largest Selection firms, based in London & Sydney. He currently manages Senior Executive appointments for clients in the Health & Life Sciences sector.
Paul Vorbach, MCom, MBA, Director, AcademyGlobal
Paul Vorbach is a business educator with 20 years management experience with organizations including Deloitte and Citigroup. Paul founded AcademyGlobal in 2001 and is President and a co-founder of the UTS Business Network.
Peter Wong, MBA, DBA, Manager of Business Sales Consultancy, Australia Post
Peter was born in Hong Kong and resided in Canada prior to moving to Australia some twenty years ago. He joined Australia Post 26 years ago. He was a member of the "first sales team" in the history of Australia Post. He has since moved through the organization from sales representative to the management ranks.
***** A Registered Migration Agent will be attending to answer any questions in relation to temporary or permanent residence options.******
To register, please fill out the registration form and fax back to 9514 3557 or email details to businessnetwork@uts.edu.au
Any questions about the seminar, please call 9514 3074 or email to businessnetwork@uts.edu.au
Alumni Wine & Cheese Tasting Night
Put Wednesday 23 May in your diaries, because it's the date set for the first Alumni Wine and Cheese Tasting Night for 2007!
Hosted by UTS alumnus Toni Paterson, Winner of the "Madame Lily Bollinger Medal" for excellence in wine tasting; author of the consumer wine guide Wine: What to drink in 2006; and Australia's youngest and only resident female Master of Wine.
Toni will take guests through a series of red and white wines from Australia's premium wine growing regions with cheese to compliment each wine tasted.
A fun evening not to be missed!
Time: 6pm
Date: Wednesday 23 May
Venue: Sky Room, The Blackett Hotel, Level 9, 70 Kings Street, Sydney
Cost: $35.00
RSVP: RSVP and Payment essential by 16 May to
E. alumni@uts.edu.au T. 9514 0836 or F. 9514 8033
To register for this event, please download the invitation here.
2007 UTS Alumni Awards Reception
The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ross Milbourne invites you to the 2007 Alumni Awards Reception.
The Alumni Awards celebrate the outstanding professional and voluntary achievements of UTS alumni, staff and students in many varied fields of endeavour.
UTS takes this opportunity to recognise the exceptional contribution UTS alumni make to the community through innovation, professional practice, leadership and community service.
The Alumni Awards Reception will be an opportunity to catch up with old friends, network with fellow UTS alumni and recognise the outstanding achievements of UTS graduates.
So, please join us in celebrating the successes of UTS alumni.
Time: 6pm for 6.30pm start
Date: Wednesday 18 April
Venue: The Chancellery, Level 4, Tower Building 1, UTS Broadway
RSVP: alumni@uts.edu.au or T. 9514 8036
To download your invitation, please click here.
This event is open to all UTS alumni and their guests. Please pass this invitation on to anyone you know who would be interested in attending.
For further information or enquiries, please contact Lella Gardner, Promotions Coordinator on 9514 8035 or by email: lella.gardner@uts.edu.au
| ALUMNI CAREERS |
Online job vacancies for alumni
UTS:Alumni members can now search for job vacancies online via the UTS Careers Service website: http://scmapp.itd.uts.edu.au/scm/jobw.
If you have not yet registered with UTS:Alumni, click here.
You will need to log on to the online vacancies site using your alumni email account details. To activate your alumni 20mb storage account visit https://email.itd.uts.edu.au/webapps/myaccount.
Click on the 'Activate your account!' link and follow the prompts to set up your UTS:Alumni email account.
You will then be able to access your email account via UTS Webmail: www.uts.edu.au/email
If you have any further queries please contact UTS:Alumni.
E. alumni@uts.edu.au or T. 9514 8036.
Graduate Civil Design Engineer Position
Are you sick of city traffic? Had enough of the dusty mine site?
UTS alumnus, Gary Preddey is looking for a graduate civil design engineer to work in his Townsville office. Highly competitive salary package includes annual bonus and relocation to tropical North Queensland.
Send your CV to gpreddey@atlanticcivil.com.au
| ALUMNI NETWORKS |
JOIN a UTS:Alumni Network today!
Are you interested in opportunities for social and professional networking with alumni from your faculty, or who live in the same region, or work in the same field as you? Then join your UTS:Alumni Networks and keep in touch and add to the friends and colleagues you made in your university days and meet more UTS people.
Alumni members are closely involved in running networks, with support from the UTS:Alumni & Development Office. Graduates are welcome to join an existing alumni network, or can set up a new alumni network with assistance from the UTS:Alumni & Development Office.
For a full list of active UTS:Alumni Networks click here.
If your preferred Network is not up and running yet, why not contact the Alumni Office to set it up?
P. 9514 8036 or E. alumni@uts.edu.au
Join your UTS:Alumni Law Network now!
UTS understands the contribution our graduates and their achievements have made to raise the profile of UTS:LAW to one of the top Law Schools in Australia.
In recognition of this involvement and as part our 30th Anniversary celebrations, on 29 March 2007 we officially launch the UTS:LAW Alumni Network, an initiative specifically for law graduates of UTS to maintain connections with their Faculty, friends and colleagues.
We hope as many graduates as possible can attend.
It will be held in conjunction with the launch of the new UTS Law Review, Volume 8: Racism, Religious Intolerance and The Law.
For more details and to download your invitation, please click here.
Please RSVP to Anna Munro. E. anna.munro@uts.edu.au or P. 9514 3750.
Join your UTS:Alumni Information Technology Network now!
Your UTS:Alumni Information Technology Network has been formed, and will be having the first networking event on March 29.
Come along and join fellow IT alumni, faculty members and the Dean of Information Technology, Associate Professor Tom Hintz, for drinks at the Loft.
Time: 6pm - 8pm
Date: Thursday 29 March
Location: First Floor, Loft Bar, UTS Broadway
RSVP: by Friday 23 March to
E. alumni@uts.edu.au or T. 9514 8036
The Information Technology Network has been set up by the Faculty to provide a Network for IT graduates to keep abreast of current developments in their area, through seminars and events, as well as providing career and continuing professional education opportunities.
To join the Information Technology Network please contact the Alumni Office. P. 9514 8036 or E. alumni@uts.edu.au
| GRADUATE PROFILE |
Ms Chris Broadribb
Graduate Diploma in Journalism & Master of Arts in Professional Writing
Current position: Casual journalist for www.villagevoice.com.au and freelance writer.
Chris Broadribb has been writing since she was six. She now edits and writes articles for the Village Voice website. Chris also writes articles and fiction, offering them on a freelance basis to magazines and newspapers.
Under her career belt, Chris has two self-published novellas - Nice Day For A Murder, an Australian murder mystery, and Sarah's Adventure, a children's humorous adventure story. She has also written a novel, which so far is unpublished.
"I worked as a computer programmer while doing an MA in creative writing part-time. I was later made redundant and did a graduate diploma in journalism full-time," says Chris. "I applied for the Village Voice job while I was studying and did well at it so was offered ongoing work once I finished studying."
However, Chris hasn't always pursued her writing interests. The worst job she's ever had was "working as a clerk in the public service. For the first few weeks all I did was stamp envelopes all day long!"
And the best thing about Chris' job now? "Being Able to see my name in print now and then."
Please keep us updated with your career news, or any achievements and awards you may have received. We are preparing our next e:Connect and would love to hear from you.
Email your career news to alumni@uts.edu.au
| THIS MONTHS SPECIAL OFFERS FOR YOU |
UTS:Alumni has launched your NEW online e-Community forums for alumni networks. And to celebrate we're giving you the chance to earn some Dymocks Dollars, so join now and make the most of your e-Community!
The e-Communities are online forums open to all registered UTS alumni. All you have to do is log in and sign up to an e-Community and you will automatically be in the draw to win one of 15 $50 Dymocks vouchers.
e-Communities is a great way to keep in touch socially and locate 'lost' friends and colleagues from university days.
You can also use it to:
- Ask and solve questions about professional issues
- Promote and search for employment opportunities
- Network with UTS graduates in your field
- Receive information about and publicise events
- Investigate continued learning with UTS short courses
- Locate friends and colleagues from your student days at UTS
Simply login at www.members.alumni.uts.edu.au. Your user name and password will be your student number and alumni membership number (shown on your alumni card). We advise you to reset your password after you log in.
If you can't recall you student number, send an email with 'e-Communities' in the subject line to alumni@uts.edu.au . For security reasons, please include your full name and date of birth in the body your email.
To make the most of your e-Community, encourage as many people to join the online forums as you can. The more graduates who use it, the better it will be as a tool for communication and networking.
We are working to add to the list of free UTS:Alumni benefits throughout 2007. So, send us your ideas on how you'd like to be more involved as a member of UTS:Alumni. E. alumni@uts.edu.au
Dymocks Discount for UTS:Alumni members
Attention bookworms! Dymocks is offering a special discount to UTS:Alumni members.
All you have to do is sign up to the Dymocks Booklover program at http://www.dymocks.com.au/Booklovers/default.aspx to receive a 5% discount on your web purchases or purchases made at any Dymocks stores.
Plus, receive an additional 5% discount off ANY purchase (excluding gift vouchers) at Sydney's George Street store when you present your UTS:Alumni card.
So plump the pillows of your reading chair and start shopping today!
WIN sneak preview tickets to see BUBBLE
UTS:Alumni has five double passes to the sneak preview screening of Steven Soderbergh's latest film, Bubble, to give away.
To be in the running to WIN, all you have to do is place a post on your online e:Community forum and you will automatically go in the draw to win!
Simply login at www.members.alumni.uts.edu.au and post a reply to any one of the topics in an e-Community. Your user name and password will be your student number and alumni membership number (shown on your alumni card). We advise you to reset your password after you log in.
Dendy Films is excited to be releasing Steven Soderbergh's latest film, Bubble, exclusively screening at the Chauvel from 29 March.
Dendy is holding a special sneak preview screening on Monday 26 March, 6:45pm at the Chauvel Cinema, Paddington.
Bubble is a film about an unlikely love triangle born at a doll factory in a small mid western town fallen on hard times. Lonely and isolated, long-time employees Martha and Kyle have become friends by default in spite of their drastic age difference, but their dynamic is upset by the arrival of a new worker: young, attractive single mother Rose. As Martha grows increasingly wary about Rose's dubious character, she discovers Kyle and Rose developing a relationship of their own.
A murder is committed, an investigation begins, one that will call into question our established assumptions about these characters and life in their small town. Featuring a cast of non-professional actors from the Ohio location, Soderbergh brings this tragic story of characters striving to establish and maintain meaningful connections to life with startling realism.
HURRY! LAST DAYS of 20% off Musica Viva Artemis Quartet
Artemis Quartet presented by Musica Viva
'the most vivid, boldest, clearest constructions in sound ever imagined."
Sydney Morning Herald
A hit with Australian audiences in 2004, the Artemis Quartet returns to our shores after two years of performing around the world in all the major chamber music venues, confirming its status as one of the leading string quartets of our time. This Berlin- based quartet will play two magical programs of music by Beethoven, Brahms, Schoenberg and Webern. Renowned for its impeccable technique and sensitive interpretation, the Artemis Quartet promises unforgettable concerts of great beauty.
Musica Viva would like to offer UTS alumni a special 20% discount offer on full priced tickets.
To take advantage of this offer, please call 02 82562222 and quote the UTS:ALUMNI 20% OFFER.
Where: City Recital Hall, Angel Place
When: Saturday 17 March 8pm
For further information about this performance or Musica Viva, please visit www.musicaviva.com.au
| LIFELONG LEARNING AT UTS |
Business Short Courses
Are you interested in honing your business negotiation skills, or developing high performance teams? Then continue your education and take advantage of your UTS:Alumni member 10% discount on these interesting business short course programs.
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Fundamentals of Turnaround Management
http://www.shortcourses.uts.edu.au/code/coursedetails.php?&sc_code=TM4SME March 22, 2007 (Sydney) / April 12, 2007 (Melbourne) / April 19, 2007 (Brisbane)
Participants will cover the critical concepts in successful turnaround management. Restore stakeholder value to the troubled enterprise by understanding the causes and severity of the turnaround situation.
Price: $880 for Alumni members (normally $980)
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Turnaround Management: Completing the Turnaround
http://www.shortcourses.uts.edu.au/code/coursedetails.php?&sc_code=TM2 March 23, 2007 (Sydney) / April 13, 2007 (Melbourne) / April 20, 2007 (Brisbane)
After a business has the survived a cash crisis, the next important step is to reorganise it for profitability. Participants will learn how to complete the turnaround and reposition the business for profitable growth.
Price: $880 for Alumni members (normally $980)
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Developing High Performance Teams
http://www.shortcourses.uts.edu.au/code/coursedetails.php?&sc_code=DEVHPT
April 16-17, 2007
Understand how to create a cohesive team that maximises each individual's strengths within a powerful group dynamic. Build a high performance team and maximise results.
Price: $980 for Alumni members (normally $1,090)
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Effective Business Negotiation
http://www.shortcourses.uts.edu.au/code/coursedetails.php?&sc_code=EFFNEGOTSKLLS
April 18-19, 2007
The ability to negotiate effectively is a key competency for success in both business and personal spheres. The effective negotiator is able to secure better long-term outcomes for both themselves and their relationships.
Price: $980 for Alumni members (normally $1,090)
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Accounting for Non-Accountants
http://www.shortcourses.uts.edu.au/code/coursedetails.php?&sc_code=ACCTG4NA
April 20, 2007
This extremely popular program teaches you how to interpret financial reports. Make informed management decisions by understanding
how statistical performance summaries can help you analyse the operations of a business.
Price: $670 for Alumni members (normally $745)
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The New Manager
http://www.shortcourses.uts.edu.au/code/coursedetails.php?&sc_code=NEWMGR
May 7-9, 2007
Develop and consolidate effective management expertise. This course prepares current and potential managers for roles as a line manager or supervisor
Price: $1,465 for Alumni members (normally $1,630)
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Six Sigma Foundations
http://www.shortcourses.uts.edu.au/code/coursedetails.php?&sc_code=SIXSIGMA
May 7, 2007
Untap one of the world's leading methodologies in business improvement. This intensive one-day program focuses on the principles and practices of Six Sigma.
Price: $670 for Alumni members (normally $745)
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Six Sigma Green Belt
http://www.shortcourses.uts.edu.au/code/coursedetails.php?&sc_code=SIXSIGMAGB
May 8-11, 2007
The Six Sigma Green Belt training program aims to equip participants with the skills to facilitate and support an organisation's improvement program to successful fruition. The Green Belt is the next step in Six Sigma training after Six Sigma Foundations.
Price: $3,325 for Alumni members (normally $3,695)
UTS Short Courses
Registered members of UTS:Alumni are entitled to a 10% discount on selected short course programs. So take advantage of this offer and continue your education!
For a comprehensive list of all current UTS short courses, please visit: http://www.shortcourses.uts.edu.au/
| CONSIDER SUPPORTING SCHOLARSHIPS AT UTS |
Consider support for scholarships at UTS
This year, UTS is working to increase the funds available to make it possible for disadvantaged yet able students to complete a course at our university. UTS is appealing to the business community, UTS staff, alumni and other generous people to help UTS fund scholarship fund for disadvantaged students.
Already many students, some with disabilities or from disadvantaged backgrounds have benefited from this generous support.
Donations to the fund are fully tax deductible and your contribution will be of lasting benefit to the students and to society.
I would like to support scholarships at UTS
| WHAT'S HAPPENING AT UTS |
Beautiful Minds: 100 years of Nobel creativity
UTS is hosting 'Beautiful Minds', the centennial exhibition of the Nobel prizes.
Curated by the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, Sweden, the Exhibition's international tour visits UTS in April on the penultimate leg of its six year, 14 country tour before heading to Abu Dhabi. The Exhibition is proudly sponsored by the Nobel Museum, Volvo and UTS.
In hosting 'Beautiful Minds', UTS expresses its commitment to creativity, innovation and peace. The exhibition will include scholarly, public and educational programs that will involve staff and students from across the University. Many of the associated programs will be open to the general public.
Paving the way to a future in engineering
A select group of students from across regional NSW have a head start to a career in civil engineering as the first intake of RTA rural engineering scholars in the UTS Faculty of Engineering.
Ten students from as far afield as Woolgoolga, Ulladulla and Parkes are being supported by the Roads and Traffic Authority in an initiative to encourage more young people to enter the profession and help address the shortage of civil engineers, particularly in regional areas.
The scholarships, each worth around $50,000, cover the full cost of the highly regarded UTS Bachelor of Engineering and Diploma in Engineering Practice, a five-year course involving extensive industry experience.
Welcoming the RTA scholars this week, the UTS Dean of Engineering Professor Archie Johnston said the Authority had made a suitably practical investment in the future of crucial skills for regional NSW.
"The RTA scholars will undertake their industry placements with the RTA and will be encouraged to do the work in a regional centre or rural area - in their home district if they so choose," Professor Johnston said.
Leigha Ingold, who went to Ulladulla High School on the south coast, said winning an RTA scholarship had given her the chance to study for a "world-class degree" in a university known for its practice-based approach.
"I'll be able to work with the RTA anywhere in NSW during my work placement internships, gaining the kind of experience that will make me ready for the workforce when I graduate," Leigha said.
Daniel Weber, who went to Parkes High School, said he hoped his employment outcome might be a job as an RTA civil engineer back in his central west home town.
"UTS was my first choice as it provides industry experience where I'm able to work for my possible future employer and gain valuable on-the-job experience, which let's face it, you don't get in front of a blackboard," Daniel said.
"Working with the RTA offers a huge chance to experience different work environments and help solve various problems that can have a big impact on the community."
Daniel said he had already learned something he didn't know about engineering while attending the Faculty's orientation camp.
"Alfred Hitchcock actually did engineering. He said it helped him to see from a different perspective and think outside the square, which is certainly evident in his films."
Sydney's Muslims take the lead in improving community relations
At a time when Muslim Australians are regularly called upon to "integrate" and to publicly defend their religion and cultures, they are actually doing much of the hard work to build bridges in Australian society according to the author of a new research report.
In Whose Responsibility? Community anti-racism strategies after September 11, 2001, Dr Tanja Dreher, Research Director for the UTS Shopfront community program, examines the way government and community organisations have responded to increased tensions in Sydney since 2001, with the Cronulla riots of a year ago as another landmark.
Following up on a report last year that found racially motivated violence and verbal abuse in NSW rose significantly in the months following the September 11 attacks in the US, the new study "highlights the enormous efforts that many in the Muslim, Arab and Sikh communities have made to address fears and misconceptions and to build better relationships across differences."
Dr Dreher said strategies to respond to events such as Cronulla had been "heavily reliant on the generosity of the very individuals and communities experiencing increased fear and harassment."
"For community workers, doing antiracism and crisis response work detracts from core business activities such as service delivery, case management, advocacy and community development," she said.
"Interviewees reported that 'racism creates a lot of work for community organisations' at precisely the time when staff and clients are most under stress. Most community antiracism work remains under-resourced and dependent on volunteer and unpaid labour.
"To ensure equitable, effective and sustainable responses to crises in community relations, it is vital that the work of crisis response and strengthening community relations is not left to the very communities targeted.
"Despite many successes, most people involved in community antiracism work remain frustrated at what is seen as a lack of interest among the public, policymakers and media, and the dilemma of 'preaching to the converted'.
"Arab, Muslim and Sikh communities may well be reaching out, but that effort has been met with uneven concern and commitment among the wider community and mainstream institutions."
Dr Dreher said the communities recognised that part of the solution was improving media skills, but responding to outbreaks of negative reporting was "ongoing challenge".
"Government interviewees and community representatives alike felt that the tone of reporting in mainstream media and public statements by senior figures in government could undermine all the good community relations work.
"There is a widespread perception that media reporting is one of the most important factors in community relations, and also one of the most difficult issues to address."
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