Archive for March, 2009

The University of New England’s Bachelor of Social Work degree program will be officially launched next Monday by the Hon. Phillip Costa MP, NSW Minister for Regional Development.

Teaching in this innovative, four-year undergraduate degree program began last month, with 63 students enrolled in its inaugural year. The course coordinator, Dr Myfanwy Maple (pictured here), a Senior Lecturer in UNE’s School of Health, said that 42 of the students were studying full-time, and that about half of those were studying on-campus.

The Bachelor of Social Work program builds on UNE’s strengths in providing rurally-focused professional training in related and complementary areas (including medicine, nursing and criminology), grounded on the philosophy that those who are trained “in the bush” often stay “in the bush”. The program includes 980 hours of fieldwork practice.

The Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) officially endorsed the program last September. The independent report to the AASW Board, on which it based its endorsement, noted that local social work practitioners had had “considerable input into the detail of the program”. “There is evidence of a wide range of social work practitioners in central and northern NSW committed to UNE social work conceptualisation, and to the integration of social work practice and education,” the report continued.

Monday’s launch will be in the courtyard adjacent to UNE’s Pat O’Shane Building (or in the building’s upstairs foyer in the event of wet weather), beginning at 10.15 am. The launch by Mr Costa will be followed by responses from the Chancellor of UNE, the Hon. Richard Torbay MP, the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Alan Pettigrew, and the Head of Hunter New England Health’s Social Work Discipline, Ms Susan Gould.

Published with permission from UNE Marketing and Public Affairs.

UNE is again offering the highly successful Lucy Mentoring Program to women students studying law, business, accounting, finance and economics.  If you are in your third or final year of your studies and have achieved consistently throughout your degree then you are invited to apply to be part of the Lucy Program.

“Lucy” as it is called, is an innovative mentoring program which will inspire, motivate and educate women about the opportunities available for employment and leadership in major corporations and the public sector. Since the Lucy Program began in 2006,  350 students have graduated from the program.

“Lucy” is a partnership between the NSW Office for Women, Women Chiefs of Enterprises International and the University of Sydney, Western Sydney, New South Wales, Newcastle, Wollongong and the University of New England.

The Lucy Mentoring Program aims to match our students with local men and women in senior positions in either the public or private sector.  The purpose of the mentoring relationship is to communicate to women the diversity of opportunities available for them in the private and public sector.

Here at UNE, the Lucy Program is jointly co-ordinated by Ms Airlie Bell and Ms Julia Perryman from Careers Assist and Dr Lou Conway from the School of Business, Economics and Public Policy.  Students are invited to attend an information session on Thursday 12 March from 4-5pm in the Lewis Seminar Room in the Economics Business and Law Building.  Further information is available on the Lucy Blog at <a href=”../../lucy/”>http://blog.une.edu.au/lucy/</a>UNE is again offering the highly successful Lucy Mentoring Program to women students studying law, business, accounting, finance and economics. If you are in your third or final year of your studies and have achieved consistently throughout your degree then you are invited to apply to be part of the Lucy Program.

“Lucy” as it is called, is an innovative mentoring program which will inspire, motivate and educate women about the opportunities available for employment and leadership in major corporations and the public sector. Since the Lucy Program began in 2006, 350 students have graduated from the program.

“Lucy” is a partnership between the NSW Office for Women, Women Chiefs of Enterprises International and the University of Sydney, Western Sydney, New South Wales, Newcastle, Wollongong and the University of New England.

The Lucy Mentoring Program aims to match our students with local men and women in senior positions in either the public or private sector. The purpose of the mentoring relationship is to communicate to women the diversity of opportunities available for them in the private and public sector.

Here at UNE, the Lucy Program is jointly co-ordinated by Ms Airlie Bell and Ms Julia Perryman from Careers Assist and Dr Lou Conway from the School of Business, Economics and Public Policy. Students are invited to attend an information session on Thursday 12 March from 4-5pm in the Lewis Seminar Room in the Economics Business and Law Building. Further information is available on the Lucy Blog at http://blog.une.edu.au/lucy/

Article reproduced with permission from UNE’s news list.