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Weekly Bulletin – Monday, October 6, 2003

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By Monash University - 6th October 2003 - Back to News

The Minister for Education, Lynne Kosky MP will launch the building construction works of the Gippsland Education Precinct at the Gippsland Campus on Friday, October 10. Four students from Kurnai College, GippsTAFE, Gippsland Group Training and Monash University, representing the partners in the Gippsland Education Precinct, will also take part in the ceremony.

Associate Professor Andrew Beer, Flinders University, Adelaide and Terry Clower, University of North Texas will be guest speakers at the Institute for Regional Studies Forum to be held on Friday, October 17 at 12.30pm at Monash University Gippsland Campus. Associate Professor Beer will compare the Economic Development of Australia, England, the US and Northern Ireland while Terry Clower will address lessons learned from his research which includes economic development in metropolitan and non-metropolitan parts of the US, practitioner training and research on homelessness.

The Australian Psychological Society (APS) Gippsland branch will be hold their 2003 Professional Development Program at the Monash University Centre for Rural Health, Latrobe Regional Hospital on Wednesday, October 8 from 7pm. The topic of the program will be SHED (Self Help Ending Domestics), a program for men to support and challenge each other to become more aware and responsible about men’s violence in the community. Chris Laming, lecturer at Monash Gippsland founded SHED in 1994 and will be one of the presenters on the night.

• Making the Grade

Fifty-nine distance education and on campus Science students have been attending a residential school at the Monash University Gippsland School of Applied Sciences over the past two weeks. The students have been using campus laboratories to simulate a pathology laboratory and undertake DNA experiments. Field trips to local industry, forestry sites and a pathology lab were also part of the program.

• Open subject

Explore Monash was held at the Gippsland Campus last week. The final program for 2003 attracted more than seventy students and parents. The increase was driven by a large contingent of mature age students who are now utilising Explore Monash to increase their options to further their education and career prospects.

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