Mr. Bill Farmer, (pictured here with Ogi) is the new Australian Ambassador to
Indonesia. He has served in so many interesting places around the world —
New York, Mexico, Egypt and Malaysia. He visited the KGRE office recently,
together with his wife, Elaine. Listen for his interviews on KGRE soon. Bill is
a strong supporter of KGRE in Indonesia and KGRE wishes him well in his new
appointment.
Australian Partnership Scholarships (APS)
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Both Teddy and Ira were APS awardees in 2005 and now they are in Australia
studying. It could be you in 2006.
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Teddy Tandayu
comes from Manado. He is going to Australia with APS to study Master in
Business Administration at Southern Cross University. It's a university located
in Lismore and pretty close to Sydney. Teddy also loved the course at IALF
Bali.
‘Well, it's really excellent, especially with the facilities that have
been offered here. We, we got to learn new things here especially with the
activities, academic writing and presentation and seminar, debating skills, and
we can benefit a lot of more thing before we are going to Australia’.
Any advice for prospective applicants for APS?
‘I would really recommend and really suggest them to try, to give a try
to apply for ADS or at least APS since APS is only offered for two years only
in 2005 and 2006. So I really suggest that they should try their best efforts
in order to be offered a seat in the Australia and Partnership Scholarship
program especially so that it can give them more knowledge and a further
insight how to enhance their ability in the future’.
Ira
is from Surabaya and she will hopefully go to Curtin University of Technology
in Perth. Ira completed her Pre-Departure language Training at IALF in the
middle of 2005. She loved the course and the experience of learning new things
at IALF Bali. She especially enjoyed the academic culture at IALF. The style of
learning really interested Ira with the need to be independent and resourceful.
Of course hard work is also necessary.
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APS is an initiative from the Australia Indonesia Partnership for
Reconstruction and Development (AIPRD) and is funded by the Australian
Government. The scholarships are for postgraduate study for Indonesian students
in Australian universities. The objective of the scholarship program is to
increase the human resource capacity of Indonesia in the areas of Economic
Governance, Public Sector Management and Education. After the earthquake and
tsunami in Aceh and North Sumatra, the Australian Government has increased its
commitment to supporting development in Indonesia. The program is open to all
public sector and private sector employees, working within the priority areas
of APS.
The APS program is open to all public sector and private sector employees,
working within the priority areas of APS. These priority areas are Economic
Governance, Education and Public Sector Management.
Applicants must -
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have achieved GPA 2.9 in your last program of study
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have documented evidence of an English language proficiency level of IELTS 5.0
or TOEFL 500
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be a Public sector or Private sector employee
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have an Indonesian S1 or S2 qualification or an overseas Bachelor qualification
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not be more than 42 years of age
Applications for APS 2006 open on May 8th and close on July 7th.
For more information —
www.apsprogram.or.id
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