Dear Colleagues,

Following the introduction of New Courses in 2012, the University is conducting a Review of Courses, focussing on the four three years’ undergraduate Bachelor degrees (excluding the Bachelor of Philosophy) in the first stage of the Review.

The first stage of the Review of Courses is being conducted from 18-20 November 2015.

The Review will be conducted by a Review Panel comprising:

Chair:  

Professor Grady Venville, Dean of Coursework Studies

Professor David Mackey has spent a week training local doctors in Timor Leste in an effort to improve eye health services and reduce the burden of preventable eye disease.

Professor Mackey, Managing Director of the Lions Eye Institute and Chair of UWA Ophthalmology, said it was a challenge to provide basic eye health care in the developing nation.

“Timor had a huge shortage of doctors and after Timorese independence, the Cuban government offered to train 1000 Timorese students,” he said.

Date:                               Saturday, 10 October 2015

Time:                              18:00 - 20:00

Nyul Nyul people have lived on their country — around Beagle Bay on the Dampier Peninsula in the Kimberley region — for thousands of years in a deep relationship with the ocean, rivers, waterholes and Pindan bushland that sustain them. Wetlands are identified as being important not only as a water source for people and all life, but as a central part of the Nyul Nyul people’s identity. They are special places providing habitat for hunting and fishing, and supporting many different plants that are valuable as food, medicine, or materials.