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Year 12 students get down to Business at UNE

July 27, 2005

EBLStudy.thumb.JPGMore than 200 Year 12 students are a step closer to Higher School Certificate success after taking part in the annual HSC study day at The University of New England’s Faculty of Economics, Business and Law.

The students came to UNE from schools in Armidale, Tamworth, Guyra, Gunnedah, Glen Innes, Inverell and Tenterfield for the full-day program last Friday [22 July].

Sessions throughout the day focused on aspects of the HSC curricula for Business Studies, Economics, and Legal Studies. UNE academics conducted the sessions on Economics and Legal Studies.

An innovation in this year’s study day was the presence of a prominent authority on the Business Studies curriculum, Stephen Chapman. Mr Chapman, who travelled to UNE from Goulburn to conduct most of the sessions on Business Studies, is an HSC marker and co-author of the textbook "Business Studies in Action" used by many students. He has worked as an advisory consultant for government bodies, is a regular presenter at schools’ in-service and professional development days, and has won awards for teaching excellence and pedagogical writing as well as a Commonwealth Parliamentary Teaching Scholarship.

Professor Patrick Hutchinson, Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning) in the Faculty, said Mr Chapman had been invited to take part in the study day as part of the University’s service to regional schools. “We want to give students in the region access to experiences that metropolitan students often take for granted,” he said.

Professor Hutchinson said the study day had provided the students with “an opportunity not only to revise for their exams but also to see what a university campus is like”. “The Faculty hopes that the experience will help students in the region to appreciate the advantages of studying at UNE when making their choice of university,” he said.

The photograph displayed here shows Stephen Chapman at the study day with three students from Duval High School, Armidale. They are (from left) Tara Gates, Mitchell McCallum and Oliver Finch.


Media contact: Professor Patrick Hutchinson, Faculty of Economics, Business and Law, UNE (02) 6773 3902 or Judy McDonald, Faculty of Economics, Business and Law, UNE (02) 6773 3964.

Posted by Jim Scanlan at July 27, 2005 02:36 PM