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StudyGoldCoast Celebrates Another Successful Year- Annual General Meeting
On the 25th of August, the Gold Coast Education & Training Network held its Annual General Meeting to celebrate the achievements of the past year. The meeting provided an opportunity for the Management Committee of the Network to promote StudyGoldCoast’s achievements, particularly the monumental strides made in the last 12 months.
The AGM was held in the Spinners Bar at the Kurrawa Surf Club followed by a cocktail party networking event. All network members and friends were invited to attend.
We congratulate the following members who have been elected to the Management Committee for the coming 12 months.
Chair - Professor Bryan Rothwell, Southern Cross University
Vice-Chair - Mr Nick Bottrall, Executive Institute of Management
Treasurer - Ms Carmel Thompson, The Southern Cross Connection
Secretary - Ms Mary Wells, Saint Stephen's College
Chair, RTO Committee - Mr Shane Mackintosh, Mackintosh International College
Chair, TESOL Committee - Ms Elaine Eager, Gold Coast Language School
Chair, Marketing Committee - Ms Dominique Burgess, Dreamworld.
Committee Members:
Ms Alakh Analda - Zentium International
Ms Kym Dickinson - Elanora State High School,
Ms Helen Eager - Mission Australia Nerang
Ms Suzie Neeson - Kings International College
Mr Jonathan Purdy - CQ University.
Please give these members your support as they lead the Network for the next 12 months.
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Gold Coast Careers Expo Draws Variety
Nearly 5,000 visitors consisting of high school students, postgraduate students, teachers, parents, job seekers and those seeking professional development were in attendance at this year’s Gold Coast Careers Expo held on the 27th and 28th of July at the Carrara Indoor Stadium.
The assortment among those in attendance was one of many features that exhibitors were pleased to discover according to Andrew Pevats, Manager of Employment and Recruitment at the Australian Technical College.
“On behalf of the Australian Technical College – Gold Coast, I would like to thank StudyGoldCoast for their effort in organising the Gold Coast Careers Expo, which was a big success for us. The positive aspects of the event included a good variety of attendees over two days, the flow of display booths working well and the schools’ participation being well organized with genuine interest,” said Mr.Pevats.
Thank you to all the exhibitors and attendees who made the expo a success. Don't forget, it's never too early to start planning for next year! For more information, please contact (07) 5591 3322.
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Talk Down Under Competition Winner Claims Prize
StudyGoldCoast is proud to announce Justine Turner as the Talk Down Under competition winner from the 2008 Gold Coast Careers Expo.
Turner has taken home a brand, new Motorola W375 and will also be receiving a free phone package.
Thank you to Talk Down Under for the provided phone/package and for being a sponsor of this year's expo!
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StudyGoldCoast Announces Air Asia Competition Winner
As a sponsor of this year’s Gold Coast Careers Expo, Air Asia offered visitors the chance to win two return airfares to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
StudyGoldCoast is proud to announce Libby Armitage as the winner of the two return airfares.
Thank you to Air Asia for being a sponsor of the 2008 Gold Coast Careers Expo and for providing the lucky winner a trip of a lifetime!
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GPS Finds New Home
StudyGoldCoast is proud to announce Deborah Weisz as the winner of a brand new GPS system donated by Jim’s Computers. The winner’s name was drawn from entry forms turned in at the Stewart Roberts exhibition booth at this year’s Gold Coast Careers Expo.
Thank you to Jim’s Computers for the donation of this wonderful prize.
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Air Asia X - new Preferred Supplier for StudyGoldCoast
We are very pleased to announce that Air Asia X has come on board with a special offer being designed for students, agents and education providers who wish to travel direct to the Gold Coast from Asia. More information coming soon.....
Air Asia X have also offered Network members the opportunity to promote in their in-flight magazine and the details of this advertising promotion will be circulated to all members shortly.
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Australian Homestay Network- AHN
StudyGoldCoast has been operating since 1994. A Strategic alliance has been formed between AHN (Australian Homestay Network) and StudyGoldCoast who have become AHN’s first foundation year member. This will provide a more improved Homestay program and extend services to both students and Homestay families.
This is an exciting year as we are about to begin system training and testing. A lot of thought has gone into how to best bring new organisations onto the system, and we thought we should document the process here to give everyone a better idea of what’s in store.
In the first phase of training we will have staff members take on the role of a Homestay Host or Student so that they can run through and understand the flow of the system from the perspective of the users they will be supervising. This will also provide them with the opportunity to test out the system by creating different problem scenarios to see how the system handles them.
After new users have completed the student/host flow up until placement we will reverse the roles and have them be supervisors within a dummy organisation we have set up on the system for training purposes. AHN staff will then create a series of Hosts and Students and run them through the flow while generating as many pre-placement issues that we can come up with. This will provide new users with an understanding of how a supervisor manages their operations using the system, including task delegation and incident management.
For more information please visit www.homestaynetwork.blogspot.com
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PIER Education and Training Course
The EATC is delivered online which contains readings, links to related resources, self assessment tasks ( often in the forum of case of studies), anbd self- paced tutorial exercises including self-monitoring multiple choice questions.
Agents can access and use the training material at no cost as many times as they wish. The EATC is 100% online, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Those wishing to undertake the Formal Assessment of Education Agents Training Course and become Qualified Education Agent Counsellor can do so by completing the assessment mode at cost of $400 AUD.
Agents can currently take the formal assessment test in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Gold Coast, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Vietnam, Thailand, South Korea, Japam, Malaysia, Indonesia, South America, Mexico, Dubai and Taiwan.
Education agents that have succesfully completed the formal assessment are listed as Qualified Education Agent Coucillors. To see a list of these agents, please go to www.pieronline.org
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Talk Down Under Promotion
StudyGoldCoast is pleased to advise that we have entered into a preferred supplier arrangement with Talk Down Under, a company that provides mobile phones and phone cards to International students studying in Australia.
We see this as an extension of the services that StudyGoldCoast and its members are able to provide to International students so that they can maximize their time on the Gold Coast.
Talk Down Under has set up a new webpage that your students can access and order their phones, SIM cards and phone cards and these will be waiting for them at their homestay or colleges when they arrive in Australia.
For more information please go to www.talkdownunder.com.au/studygoldcoast
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TESOL Training Courses
We are updating the StudyGoldCoast TESOL webpage http://www.studygoldcoast.org.au/study_gold_coast/tesol/ and would like to be able to promote the various TESOL training courses that are offered by our members on the Gold Coast.
There is an opportunity for you to tick a TESOL box on your individual "Members Console" webpage and then your courses will be listed on the TESOL page -http://www.studygoldcoast.org.au/education/index.php?pclass%5B%5D=30&action=searchresults.
If you need to know how to get to the Members console page to make amendments to your webpage, then please contact reception@studygoldcoast.org.au
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Meetings in the coming month
The StudyGoldCoast Meetings to be held in the next month are:
Domestic Marketing Committee Meeting - Wednesday 1st October
RTO and Training Committee Meeting - Tuesday 14th October
International Marketing Committee Meeting - Friday 24th October
TESOL Committee Meeting - Friday 31st October.
All members are welcome to attend any of these meetings. To book in please contact info@studygoldcoast.org.au. Minutes and Agendas are normall circulated two weeks prior to the meeting.
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