2015
Schools’ Bulletin
April 2015
RMIT Launches Flagship $8 Million Fashion Hub
RMIT celebrates the new home of fashion
with the $8 million redevelopment of a
major building at the Brunswick campus.
The investment includes new design
studios, a 190-seat interactive lecture
theatre, new audio and video technologies,
student and staff lounges and specialist
machine rooms.
The building was officially launched in
March by RMIT Vice-Chancellor and
President, Martin Bean CBE, with a
keynote address by alumnus and CEO
of the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion
Festival, Graeme Lewsey.
Mr Lewsey, who also chairs the RMIT
School of Fashion and Textiles Program
Advisory Committee, said he was excited
to be part of RMIT’s dynamic community.
What’s On Calendar 2015
“The launch will maintain RMIT’s reputation
nationally, regionally and globally as the
southern hemisphere’s most equipped,
invested and talent-rich hub on offer,”
he said.
April
“I’m proud of my association with
RMIT; the free-flow of creativity and
professionalism from students and
graduates is ever-present.”
7–10
The VCE and Careers Expo
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2015 International Design Forum
RMIT’s suite of fashion certificate, diploma,
advanced diploma, associate degree
and degree programs will now call the
Brunswick campus home.
27
RMIT Trades Tour
27
Bundoora Health and Medical Science Tour
For more information on RMIT’s Fashion
programs please visit:
www.rmit.edu.au/study-with-us/art-designand-architecture/fashion-and-textiles
22 RMIT Trades Tour
29
Bundoora Health and Medical Science Tour
May
21–22 WRICA Careers Expo
June
15 –16 City Tertiary Information Services held at RMIT
17
RMIT Trades Tour
24 Bundoora Health and Medical Science Tour
29
Business Experience Day
29
Engineering Experience Day (City)
29 Science in the City Lab Tours
30 Health and Medical Sciences Experience
Day (Bundoora)
July
1
Justice and Legal Experience Day
1
Music, Sound and Live Production
Experience Day
1
Science Experience Day
2
Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations
Experience Day
2
Engineering Experience Day (Bundoora)
2
Sustainability Experience Day
3
Art and Design Experience Day
3
Project Management Experience Day
24 – 26 Melbourne Careers Expo
RMIT’s new home of fashion at the Brunswick campus.
August
Newly opened fashion design studios.
3
VTAC Applications open
9
RMIT Open Day
Fashion students at work.
www.rmit.edu.au
In This
Issue
Editor’s Welcome
Thank you to those who attended the Career Advisers’ Seminar on Friday 13 March. Over 260 career
advisers attended and participated in a variety of sessions and workshops, making the day a great success.
Thank you to everyone who completed the online survey. We congratulate Rebecca Paulos from Mentone Girls’
Secondary College who has won a $1000 voucher for Red Balloon, Australia’s leading experience company.
You can download seminar presentations at: www.rmit.edu.au/programs/advisers/resources.
Editor’s Welcome
What’s on Calendar
Activities and Events
Included with the April Bulletin is a copy of the 2015 ATAR poster, 2015 Facts and Figures, Experience
Day brochures and the new Pathways Poster. Additional copies of each can be ordered by contacting
Student Recruitment.
Melissa Robinson
On behalf of the RMIT Student Recruitment team
RMIT Student in Profile
Contacts
Helpful Websites
Activities
and Events
2016 Degree and Diploma Guide is
Now Available
To request copies to be sent to your school
please visit:
www.rmit.edu.au/study-with-us/careers-advisers/
order-rmit-publications
Students, parents and teachers are invited to visit
our cutting edge learning laboratories and discover
the range of programs on offer including: biology,
biotechnology, chemistry, environmental sciences,
food science, nanotechnology and physics.
Tour date:
Folio Preparation Courses
Monday 29 June
RMIT’s portfolio preparation courses are intensive
practical courses held in the school holidays.
Time:
These courses are designed to help students
seeking entry into art, design and architecture
courses to produce their best portfolio of work
possible, as well as providing an overview of the
industry and the selection procedures.
Further information and registration:
Upcoming courses at RMIT include:
—Adobe
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Illustrator and Photoshop for Fashion –
Introduction
—Adobe
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InDesign for Fashion – Introduction
—Design
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Jobs 101
—Portfolio
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Preparation in 3D Product Design
—Portfolio
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Preparation in Graphic Design – Level 1
—Portfolio
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Preparation in Interior Decoration
2016 Degree and Diploma Guide is now
available.
Science in the City Lab Tours
—Portfolio
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Preparation in Photography
—Portfolio
—
Preparation in Visual Merchandising
Further information:
Short and Single Courses
Tel. 03 9925 8111
www.shortcourses.rmit.edu.au/page/
high_school_students
11am –2pm
www1.rmit.edu.au/appliedsciences/discover
What Kind of Engineer are You?
Interested in engineering but not sure which type is
the best fit for you? You can now find out with our
new online quiz “What kind of Engineer are you?”
To take the quiz visit https://trueengineer.com.au
Bundoora Tours
School groups are invited to visit the Bundoora
campus for a RMIT presentation and tour of our
Health and Medical Science facilities.
Students can see behind the scenes visiting anatomy
laboratories, a state of the art complementary
medicine facility, our sports science centre and
nursing facilities.
Tour dates:
—Wednesday
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29 April
—Wednesday
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27 May
—Wednesday
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24 June
Time:
10 –11.30am
Further information and registration:
Email: [email protected]
RMIT Experience Days
Monthly Trades Tours at RMIT
RMIT offers a number of events designed to give
students in Years 10 to 12 an insight into life on
campus. During the school holidays, students can
engage in hands on workshops and explore different
aspects of art, design, science, community studies
and engineering. Registrations are now open.
RMIT will be offering monthly trades tours of the
modern facilities and teaching spaces at the City
campus. Tours will be available every month on a
Wednesday morning for school groups.
Below is a list of all Experience Days:
Upcoming tour dates:
Monday 29 June
Past student Taryne Fletcher recording
a live gig while studying at RMIT. Taryne
now runs her own video production
company, Stitch Productions.
—22
— April
—Business
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—27
— May
—Engineering
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(City)
—17
— June
Tuesday 30 June
Time:
—Health
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and Medical Sciences (Bundoora)
8.30 – 10am
Wednesday 1 July
Further information and registration:
—Justice
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and Legal
—Music,
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Sound and Live Production
—Science
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Thursday 2 July
—Advertising,
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Marketing and Public Relations
—Engineering
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(Bundoora)
—Sustainability
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Friday 3 July
—Art
— and Design
—Project
—
Management
Further information and registration:
www.rmit.edu.au/experiencedays
RMIT students operating sound,
lighting and vision equipment at the
Corner Hotel, Richmond.
Students wishing to learn more about a career
in trades can book a tour.
Career advisers may also attend Experience
Days to view the facilities and activities first hand.
For interested career advisers please contact
the Student Recruitment team on 03 9925 2555
or [email protected].
Construction and Plumbing
Pre-apprenticeships
RMIT has combined the Construction and Plumbing
pre-apprenticeship programs to allow students to
complete units from both qualifications. These
combined skills provide a pathway for students unsure
which trade they would like to undertake and enables
them to try each before making a final decision.
Once completed, students will receive credits for
whichever trade they choose to continue with.
Further information and enrolment:
Luke Buchannan
RMIT Vocational Engineering
Tel. 0418 717 249
Email: [email protected]
Luke Buchannan
RMIT Vocational Engineering
Tel. 0418 717 249
Email: [email protected]
Live Events and Technical Production
Programs
RMIT has developed exciting, new specialist
training in lighting, sound and entertainment
technology operation.
The Certificate IV and Diploma of Live Production
and Technical Services trains students to work as
part of creative technical production teams and
develop the skills needed to become part of this
dynamic and expanding industry.
Learn how to set up, focus and operate lighting
equipment, bump in and bump out live shows,
mix live audio and gain valuable industry experience.
Students are trained to work across a range of
industries including film, TV, the performing arts
and entertainment industries.
The programs are ideal for students who have
completed VET in schools Music Industry or
Technical Production. Selection is made by
interview and an ATAR is not required.
Further information:
RMIT Media and Communications
Tel. 03 9925 4815
Contacts
Student Recruitment
Scholarship Information
—Services
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for Career Advisers
and Secondary Schools
Tel. 03 9925 2555
Email: [email protected]
www.rmit.edu.au/programs/advisers
RMIT Short and Single Courses
International Services
—Admissions
—
for non-Australian residents
Tel. 03 9925 5156
Email: [email protected]
www.rmit.edu.au/international
Apprenticeships and Traineeships
Luke Tengstrom travelling office-to-office on his Google
scooter.
Debbie Reynolds
Tel. 03 9925 0471
Email: [email protected]
www.rmit.edu.au/programs/
apps-trainees
www.rmit.edu.au/scholarships
Tel. 03 9925 8111
Email: [email protected]
www.shortcourses.rmit.edu.au
VCE Program Manager
Elaine Henry
Tel. 03 9925 4891
Email: [email protected]
Info Corner
—For
— Future Student Enquiries
Tel. 03 9925 2260
Email: [email protected]
www.rmit.edu.au/programs
Helpful Websites
RMIT University—www.rmit.edu.au
List of departments—www.rmit.edu.au/directory
What’s on @ RMIT—www.rmit.edu.au/events
The entrance to Google’s Sydney office, where Luke
spent three months as an intern.
RMIT programs—www.rmit.edu.au/programs
Campus maps—www.rmit.edu.au/about/campuses
Google Internship – Top Result for
RMIT Student
RMIT postgraduate options—www.rmit.edu.au/postgrad
RMIT Bachelor of Business (Marketing) student,
Luke Tengstrom, scored a dream internship with
internet giant Google.
RMIT brochure request—www.rmit.edu.au/programs/advisers/resources
After completing a study tour with RMIT to
Canada, Luke was eager for another challenge
and set his sights on an internship at Google
– along with 7000 other applicants.
RMIT publications—www.rmit.edu.au/publications
Four months after applying, Luke heard he was
required to undertake four interviews, answering
questions like “How many golf balls are there in
San Francisco” or “If you were the Managing
Director of Google Australia, what are the three
strategic issues that would keep you awake at
night?”.
“I believe my degree at RMIT has taught me to
be a problem solver,” he says.
“This really helped in the interview process and
when working at a place like Google – where
90 per cent of your job is always something new
and you need to be able to apply critical thinking
to a problem and develop a solution.”
RMIT Village (accommodation)—www.rmitvillage.com.au
Contact Us
RMIT University
Mark Scherian
Student Recruitment
GPO Box 2476
Melbourne VIC 3001 Australia
Tel. 03 9925 2555
Email: [email protected]
www.rmit.edu.au/programs/advisers
Manager, Student Recruitment
Kate Hope
Student Recruitment Officer
Melissa Robinson
Student Recruitment Officer
Laura Currie
Student Recruitment Officer
Cody Moore
Student Recruitment Officer
Rachel Yeung
Marketing and Recruitment Assistant
Soon after making it through the interviews, he
received the call confirming he would be interning
at the company’s Australian headquarters in
Sydney for three months. He worked within
Google’s Large Customer Division, providing
insights and strategic advertising strategies to
clients such as iSelect and News.com.au.
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