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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