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'Get turned on' at a top-ranking university

September 01, 2006

OpenD.thumb.JPGVisitors to The University of New England on Open Day – Friday 8 September – will gain an insight into why UNE has been ranked among “the top 100 Asia Pacific universities”.

At a series of short lectures titled “Turn Up to Get Turned On”, they will experience something of the spirit of intellectual adventure at UNE that led to this recent accolade. The lectures, between 10 am and 2 pm in UNE’s Education Building, will include introductions to sociology, philosophy, physiology, languages and linguistics, and political and international studies. They will also include demonstrations of the use of fluorescence in biophysics, and the art of Chinese calligraphy.

The 2006 SJTU Academic Ranking of World Universities (“Shanghai Ranking”), which also places UNE among “the world’s top 500 universities”, was published at about the same time as The Good Universities Guide for 2007. Open Day will give visitors plenty of opportunity, too, to get a feeling for why UNE has once again achieved top rating for “educational experience” (which includes “teaching quality”) in the Guide.

UNE’s unique residential system is an important ingredient in the “UNE experience”, and Open Day will begin at 7.30 am with breakfast in the residential colleges (for those who book ahead by phoning the UNE Conference Company on 6773 3370) followed by tours of the residences. Between 9.30 am and 2.30 pm visitors can talk to staff members in UNE’s Lazenby Hall about everything from course and study-mode options to scholarships, residential options, and student support services. There will be an information session for parents at 10.30 am in the Bistro. Free shuttle buses will run throughout the day, and campus tours from 10.30 am till 2 pm.

The Open Day program includes presentations on particular areas of study – including business studies, nursing, economics, law, and psychology. Tony Windsor, the Federal Member for New England and a UNE graduate, will speak during the economics presentation at 11 am in the Dillon Lecture Theatre. At 2.30 pm Mr Windsor will launch the newly-formed UNE Economics Society in Booloominbah. (For more information on the Economics Society contact Giles Dickenson-Jones on 6773 1002 or 0439 472 603.)

Theatre students will present performances in the Drama Studio at about 11.15 and 11.45 am, the Moot Court in the School of Law will be alive with “legal proceedings” between 12 noon and 1 pm, and entertaining outdoor activities will include rides on a mechanical bull, fun with “sumo suits” and “gladiator jousts”, and a free barbecue lunch.

Everyone with an interest in the University – including, of course, prospective students – is invited to Open Day. For more information, and program details, go to:
http://www.une.edu.au/news/openday.htm, or ring 1800 818 865.

Posted by Jim Scanlan at September 1, 2006 03:22 PM