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 NSW HSC Online NSW HSC Online is designed to be a one-stop-shop for Years 11 and 12 students as they approach their NSW HSC exams. It is a Charles Sturt University initiative in collaboration with the Department of Education. The Study and Exams area of NSW HSC Online contains a wealth of information. Even if you only visit a few of the links listed, you will gain valuable insights into a range of topics, from learning in general through preparing for examinations and test-taking tactics to specific skills such as stress management and time management. The basic purpose of this area is to equip you with skills and techniques that will improve your performance as you prepare for the Higher School Certificate. http://hsc.csu.edu.au/   ICMS Scholarships The International College of Management, Sydney (ICMS) will award three National scholarships in 2011. These scholarships are open to Australian citizens completing year 12 in 2010 as well as to students who completed Year 12 in 2009 and took a gap year in 2010. Each scholarship covers the full tuition fees for two years of study at the College and is valued up to $40,000. Applications close Friday 22 October 2010. Home website: http://www.icms.edu.au/about-us.html  Invitation to Careers Advisers Are your students interested in a career in the makeup, beauty or hairdressing industries? The Mask Academy of Make, Beauty, Nails and Hairdressing invites High School Careers Advisers to an Information Day. Attendees will experience an overview of the college and courses, from entry level Certificates to fully accredited Diplomas in Makeup, Hair and Beauty. 11:00 am Tuesday July 27, 2010 Please RSVP by July 20th 2010 to Carol Boutros Phone: 9687 1097 Email: carol@maskacademy.com 37-39 George St Parramatta 2150 NSW www.maskacademy.com  Surfing the Web to Help Build a Career A Surfing the Web to Build a Career resource has been put together by the Blue Mountains, Hawkesbury and Penrith Schools Industry Partnership to assist students. It has a wide range of Industry, Education and Career web site addresses for students and their support networks to access. Download a copy of the guide at http://www.schoolsindustry.com.au/imagesDB/news/TheWebBasedCareersInformationGuide.doc  Reach for the Sky If you are interested in a career as a flight attendent, then Reach for the Sky may be able to help. For nine years Reach For The Sky Aviation Services Limited has been successfully preparing applicants for the position of flight attendant for airlines in Australia and overseas. The company claims to have had a very high success rate of 99% placing applicants into the style of flying and airline of their choice. Dates available in Sydney are TUESDAY 27TH JULY and WEDNESDAY 28TH JULY.  Sydney Film School Festival Twice yearly at the end of each semester and its production period, the Sydney Film School hosts the popular SFS Film Festival to celebrate the completion of the semester’s productions and the graduation of the 1-year Diploma students. Two days of student film screenings are a great opportunity for current and future filmmakers to come together. The full house of general public (students, graduates, film crew members, their families and friends), actors, aspiring filmmakers, media and industry leaders is specially addressed by the keynote speakers chosen each year equally for their ability to inspire passion as for their insight into the realities of the film culture of Australia. The Festival also hosts Panel Discussions to educate the audience on a wide range of industry-related issues and to help the industry bodies make their role more widely understood in the community. All sessions are FREE. Please note: The films shown will all be prescreened by SFS staff. They have already screened 40 out of the 58 in total and have found them to be suitable for teenage viewing. Any of the remaining films which may be found unsuitable for high school aged students will have an announcement made at the start, so that parents/teachers/students will be forewarned. Of course, parents and teachers will need to make their own judgements about suitability too. RSVP is necessary only for the final screening which will be followed by awards ceremony and will include the key note speech by Australian Director Ray Lawrence (of Bliss, Lantana & Jindabyne fame). Wednesday July 14 starting 6.30pm. 82 Cope St, Waterloo NSW To RSVP please email ikeller@sydneyfilmschool.com Tel: 02 9698 2244 For further information: http://www.sydneyfilmschool.com/films/sfs-film-festival/12th-sfs-festival.aspx Home Page: http://www.sydneyfilmschool.com/default.aspx  Newcastle DesignTECH Exhibition Interested in DesignTECH? Wallsend District Library will host the DesignTECH exhibition from Friday 2 July until the end of the month. The work of six Hunter Region 2009 HSC design and technology students will be on display as part of the exhibition: - Benjamin Berwick, Warners Bay High School - Elise Gibson, Henry Kendall High School - Jordan Koncz, Avondale School - Jessica Rykers, Callaghan College, Jesmond Campus - Tyler Westcott, Tomaree High School - Samual Shumack of Warners Bay (St Joseph's College) Take a sneak peak at these projects in the DesignTECH Regional Gallery Guide. http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/exhibitions/pdf_doc/designtech-2009-regional-guide.pdf Exhibition Details Venue: Wallsend District Library, Burn Street, Wallsend Dates: 2 – 30 July 2010 For excursion bookings and other information visit the Board's website. http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/exhibitions DesignTECH moves on to Coffs Harbour in August, before completing the 2010 tour in Parkes.  Apprenticeship & Traineeship Information Evening - Illawarra A free Apprenticeship and Traineeship information evening for parents and students is being conducted to inform, educate and promote Apprenticeships and Traineeships in the Illawarra. The evening will include employers explaining what they require, a panel for a question and answer session and a mini expo to assist with information. Contributors include: David Brown Gear, Group Training Organisations, Australian Apprenticeship Centres, Illawarra Workplace Learning and TAFE NSW – Illawarra Institute. Date: Tuesday 10 August 2010 Time: 6.00 pm to 7.00 pm Venue: Steelers Club, 1 Burelli Street Wollongong Registration: Please RSVP ASAP to Amanda Johnson P: 4254 4500 E: amanda.johnson@thesmithfamily.com.au  Kid's Design Weekends - Powerhouse Museum For the first time, keep little designers engaged with a hands-on design weekend for kids and families. Take a tour of the fascinating Tinyotreum exhibition, make and fly paper planes in the aerial playground (3 years and over), make a pop-up book (10 years and over), or go backstage with fashion workshops (10-15 years) in the Frock stars or Creating the look exhibitions. Take a mini tour of the Museum for the whole family, led by kamishibai storytellers. For further information and bookings visit: For other holiday programs at the Museum:  Equipping Young People for Life A unique educational program for young people will be revealed during a public lecture hosted by Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Wagga Wagga on Thursday 8 July. The ‘Putting Youth in the Picture’ (PYP) program was created by Queensland lawyer, Mr Adair Donaldson, to help local communities deal with issues confronting youth. "Our program uses a series of authentic but confronting movie scenarios to show how young people can become involved in life altering incidents as a result of poor decision making," said Mr Donaldson. Mr Peter Bell, of Student Services at CSU in Wagga Wagga said, "Charles Sturt University is extremely fortunate to be one of only two universities outside Queensland to deliver this impressive program." Mr Donaldson will deliver the public lecture from 7pm on Thursday 8 July in the Convention Centre at CSU in Wagga Wagga. Read more about PYP program here: http://www.puttingyouthinthepicture.com/index.html Media Officer : Fiona Halloran Telephone : 02 6933 2207 http://news.csu.edu.au/director/regionalnews/albury-wodonga.cfm  Interested in Astronomy? Pluto and the Ueber-nerds by Dr Fred Watson When is a planet not a planet? When it's a dwarf-planet, perhaps? So what's the difference? In an entertaining and fully illustrated journey through Pluto's eventful history, Fred Watson debates whether pragmatism and good science should prevail over sentiment and tradition. Fred Watson says he has spent so many years working in large telescope domes that he has started to look like one. He is Astronomer in Charge of the Anglo-Australian Observatory at Coonabarabran, where his main scientific interest is gathering information on very large numbers of stars and galaxies. He is also an adjunct professor at the Queensland University of Technology, the University of Southern Queensland, and James Cook University. Fred is the author of "Stargazer - the life and times of the telescope", and is a regular broadcaster on ABC radio. His new book "Why is Uranus upside down?" is based on listener questions, and was published in October 2007 and won the 2008 Queensland Premier's Literary Prize for Science Writing. For more information, please visit: http://www.usyd.edu.au/news/93.html?eventid=6091 to read the full story. Date: 7th July at 7pm Location: Lecture Room One, Darlington Centre Cost: $5 Contact: Sonia Chan Phone: 9036 5282 Email: royalsoc@mail.usyd.edu.au More info: http://nsw.royalsoc.org.au  Acting & Film Making Holiday Courses ACTT are offering a Youth Holiday Program. Choose between Acting Intensive and Film Making. Join with other young people and explore your own abilities to improvise, act, stretch your imagination and make great YOUTUBE videos.  Integral Energy Work Experience Integral Energy gives year 10, 11 or 12 high school students the chance to do work experience and develop possible career options. This program provides placements in their technical training centre in Hoxton Park in Western Sydney. If you are interested, please visit:  Integral Energy Apprenticeships Applications for Electrical Apprenticeships with Integral Energy open 5 July 2010.  Mid North Coast Post Secondary Options Expo There will be the Mid North Coast Post Secondary Options Expo held on Wednesday, 28th July in the gymnasium of the Coffs Harbour Education Campus between 9.30am and 12 noon. The event is aimed at senior secondary students with universities from NSW and QLD, TAFE, private providers, NSW Police, Defence Forces, employment organisations and many others in attendance. Free admission.  DEEWR Scholarships for Career Advisers The Australian Government’s Scholarships for Career Advisers school, TAFE and university program provides an opportunity for practitioners to enhance their skills, and by extension, supports young people making transitions from school to work or further study. There are two Scholarship categories: a Study Scholarship or an Industry Placement Scholarship. The Study Scholarship provides recipients with $5000 to assist in post-graduate level studies to upgrade their qualifications. Industry Placement Scholarship recipients receive $10,000 to support them to participate in short-term industry placements, enriching their knowledge of workplaces, occupations and industries. Scholarship recipients are selected from metropolitan, regional and remote areas across Australia and are considered in terms of skills, knowledge and experience that applicants hope to gain, and the potential benefits for students, schools, colleagues and workplaces. The Industry Placement Scholarships are further selected to ensure a spread across industries. Curriculum Corporation manages the scholarships application process for the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR). Applications are assessed by a panel of representatives from DEEWR, Curriculum Corporation and industry organisations. For further information on the scholarships, visit http://www.deewr.gov.au/Schooling/CareersandTransitions/CareerDevelopment/QualProf/Pages/Home.aspx and follow the scholarships link or email careerscholarships@curriculum.edu.au  ACAP Information Evening The Australian College of Applied Psychology is holding an Information Evening for prospective students at 6pm on 10th August 2010. The hour consists of a presentation that covers: the learning experience, benefits of studying at ACAP and the professional and personal outcomes you can gain through studying at ACAP.  Download ReCap ReCaP was developed for career practitioners who provide career development information, guidance, support and advice to students and other clients. This edition integrates the Australian Blueprint for Career Development and myfuture into each lesson plan. The latest edition of ReCap can be downloaded from here: http://www.deewr.gov.au/recap  New Website Launched Service Skills Australia have launched their new website. If you were previously registered on the SSA website, you will need to re-register on the new site. You will also need to register on our new site to continue to receive the e-newsletter. * Employers and industry will find information on investing in the skills of staff - including the training available and how to access it. * Registered training organisations (RTOs), trainers and assessors can keep up to date with the latest VET news, information on each of the training packages, support materials and resources to help you implement training to industry standards. * Jobseekers, students and parents can access information on training for the service industries - including careers and finding training. To register to join the Service Skills Australia community, click "Join Our Community" at www.serviceskills.com.au and enter your details.  NCVER Webinar Series Work/Life interaction, skill development and utilisation in Australia Presented by Professor Barbara Pocock, Centre for Work + Life, University of South Australia Friday, 22 October 2010 12.30pm – 1.30pm AEDT This presentation will consider how the changing nature of work and its interaction with life beyond work (including unpaid work, care and household and community involvement) affects workers' participation in vocational education. This will draw upon an Australian survey of employees conducted by the Centre for Work + Life in 2009. The presentation will also consider factors that affect the skill development and utilisation of low paid workers' in the aged care, food processing and retail sectors in Australia. This will draw upon qualitative research recently undertaken in three Australian states. It is hoped that the presentation will enable discussion about policy options that might help increase the skill development and utilisation outcomes of Australian workers in the context of their changing work-life situations. To register for free event, please visit: http://www.ncver.edu.au/newsevents/events.html#NCVER_2010_Webinar_Series  Interested in Floristry? Pearson's Commercial Design courses start at the end of July with limited places available. You can become a work-ready florist in just 1 year, attending 1 day per week! To find out more about a career in floristry, you are invited to go along to a FREE information session on the 8th or 14th July. Enjoy a floral demonstration and an opportunity to win a 2 hour floristry workshop or a gorgeous bouquet. To book a seat visit: http://www.pearsonsschool.com.au/InfoSessions/InfoSessions/InfoSessions/Overview.aspx Phone: (02) 9550 7755 Email: school@pearsonsflorist.com.au Post: Unit 6, 7-29 Bridge Road Stanmore, NSW, 2048 Home Page: http://www.pearsonsschool.com.au  TransGrid Apprenticeships - Applications Open July Each year TransGrid offers apprenticeships in various trades. All of these apprenticeships involve a four year training contract administered by the Department of Education and Training and incorporate "on the job" training as well as paid leave to attend "off the job" learning. Apprenticeships are offered in the following areas: * Electrical (Mechanic)/Systems Electrician * Telecommunications (Communications) * Transmission Lines (Lineworker) For further information and to register for the selection test, please visit: http://www.transgrid.com.au and follow the "Careers" and "Apprenticeships" links. 201 Elizabeth Street Sydney South NSW 1235 Telephone: 02 9284 3000 Freecall 1800 222 537  ICT Your Way As part of National Information Communication Technology (ICT) Careers Week, the University of Wollongong's Faculty of Informatics will be hosting an event for current and future students and their parents. Themed 'ICT Your Way', the event will provide an opportunity to de-mystify and tailor ICT applications through an interactive workshop as well as showcasing the extensive and rewarding career opportunities currently available within the ICT Industry. Event Highlights: * Win an Ipod on the night! * A practical, interactive workshop where you will develop an application that you will be able to use on your iphone, i touch or on the internet. This workshop will run every 30 minutes on the night * A keynote speaker will talk about emerging trends within the ICT sector * Speak with faculty staff about studying at UOW * Speak with local and national ICT industry representatives * This will also be a good opportunity to check out UOW's Innovation Campus in North Wollongong. Wednesday 28 July, from 7.00pm - 10.00pm Innovation Campus (iC) Event Centre Squires Way, North Wollongong To book please call 1300 367 896 or book online at http://coursefinder.uow.edu.au/coursefinder/EventBookingDetail.aspx UOW Home Page: http://www.uow.edu.au/index.html  National ICT Careers Week - ICT Career Opportunities As a dynamic and global industry, the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Industry can open up a whole new world of exciting and diverse career opportunities for high school students. TAFE NSW – Western Sydney Institute is hosting a networking event inviting School Principals, Careers Advisors, P&C Presidents, Information Technology Teachers, ICT Industry professionals and key personnel responsible for the careers pathway of young people. This is a great opportunity to hear about the latest developments from industry experts and the personal experiences from successful students working in this industry. The speaker program features keynote presentations from Emma Broadbent, Area Network Academy Manager - ANZ & PI Region, CISCO and Dr. Graeme Salter, Head of Program - Bachelor of ICT, School of Computing & Mathematics, UWS. 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