The Geelong College Essays

  • Letter of Motivation

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    Letter of Motivation My educational background is quite diverse. I spent my last three years at the Geelong College Australia, and have successfully finished year 12 there. My choices of subjects reflected the diversity of my interests - English, Mathematics, International Studies, Legal Studies, and Economics. I excelled in International Studies and was awarded Academic Merit. Upon my return to Surabaya at the start of year 1999, I attended IBMT (Institute of Business Management and Technology)

  • Personal Statement: Community Engagement In Australia

    1069 Words  | 3 Pages

    undertaken included organising sports and youth activities, running camps, pastoral care and sermon delivery. All this was undertaken while continuing to learn another culture and language. Education Masters of Transformational Development Eastern College, Melbourne, Currently undertaking completion will be in

  • History Of Australian Football

    925 Words  | 2 Pages

    With the first ever recorded match of Australian Rules football in 1858 between Scotch College and Melbourne Grammar School, Thomas Wills in 1858 upon his return from England proposed that a similar game to English Rugby League could be used to keep cricket players fit through the winter season. The rules of Australian Football League (AFL) are still ambiguous from when Thomas Wills who set up the foundation rules for which are still being used today, [1]. However, the rules were not followed very

  • Leadership: Professor Warren G. Murdoch's Leadership

    1249 Words  | 3 Pages

    According to one of his early biographers, Murdoch was a "a normal, red-blooded college student who had many friends, chased girls, went on the usual drinking binges, engaged in slapdash horseplay, tried at sports and never had enough money, no doubt due to his gambling." Murdoch's fun-loving youthful ways came to an abrupt end when

  • Competency-Based Education and Training.

    2193 Words  | 5 Pages

    Competency-Based Education and Training Competency-based education is perceived by some as the answer, by others as the wrong answer, to the improvement of education and training for the complex contemporary world (Harris et al. 1995). Popular in the United States in the 1970s in the performance-based vocational teacher education movement, competency approaches are riding a new wave in the 1990s with the National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs) system in England and Wales (begun in 1986), New