Students pitch in for 1-minute journalist competition

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Southport State High students were journalists for a day recently when they helped film a 60-second video clip for the Griffith University 1-minute journalist competition. The budding journalists helped Humanities lecturer Dr Peter McAllister film a story about New Zealand students’ welfare on the Gold Coast as a pilot for the competition]. Held by the […]

The Schoolbag expands to East Timor

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Spurred on by overwhelming success in Haiti last year – where over 14,000 kits of school supplies were delivered to local children – The Schoolbag last night launched its expansion into East Timor. The not-for-profit organisation was co-founded by 21-year-old Griffith University law student Chris Eigeland, who will now lead the youth-run initiative as it […]

Student boosts Indigenous literacy and numeracy

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A passion for helping Indigenous children realise their potential has led Griffith University Master of Education student Susan Kersland to dedicate her life to ‘closing the gap’. After graduating with an Honours degree in education, Susan taught in Brisbane for two years, then in March 2011 moved to the remote Cape York community of Laura, […]

Fast track to a successful career

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Second and third year Griffith students, across all disciplines, now have the opportunity to fast track their career with a new course of applied study being offered in partnership with Deloitte Australia. Innovation Practicum (5920GIH) is a 12 week program, in which multi-disciplinary teams of students develop a business concept as part of Deloitte’s globally […]

Scholarship prestige for engineering student

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Getting hands-on practical experience in the world of civil engineering is just one of the benefits for Griffith Uni student Rebecca Petersen, after receiving a Gold Coast City Council Engineering Scholarship. The Bachelor of Engineering student who is about to enter her second year of study, was awarded the $25,000 scholarship at the end of […]