The General Manager – International, Brett Walker and myself have just this week returned from an extremely positive trip to the Middle East and Singapore.

In particular, our meetings in Saudi Arabia, which followed up on correspondence and a visit by Brett, have resulted in up to 70 full-time, undergraduate scholarships per annum being committed for Bond University by the Government.

In May 2007, Bond University’s Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine will introduce Australia’s first entry-level Doctor of Physiotherapy degree.

The two year program has been developed in response to the critical shortage of qualified practitioners identified by the Australian Physiotherapy Association and various State and Commonwealth health authorities.

It confirms the value of CCTV in detecting crime and providing good evidence of criminal acts but raises important questions about its value in preventing crime and public disorder from occurring.

The careerone website currently lists over 3000 positions vacant in the Education and Childcare field. A quick scan of the teaching vacancies reveals openings in every state, as well as opportunities for Australian-trained teachers to work in the UK, Hong Kong and other overseas destinations.

Currently studying a Master of Educational Practice, Bond University student Gabriela Pereira (pictured) has first-hand experience of the demand for teachers – she secured a position at one of the Gold Coast’s leading private high schools a good two months before completing her degree.

In this regular column we celebrate the many and varied successes of Bond University staff, students and Alumni.

This month we recognise the achievements of former Bond University Chancellor Elizabeth Nosworthy AO, Associate Professor of Marketing Dr Sudhir Kale, Associate Dean of Research and Innovation Dr Michael Rees and Professor of Law John Wade.

If you know of a good success story, please share it with us by emailing kristie_robinson@bond.edu.au.

I am delighted at this time of the year to wish all of the Academic and General Staff, Alumni, Students and our Friends of Bond best wishes for the upcoming Festive Season.

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NEVER IN HIS WILDEST DREAMS

For Bond Alumnus David Gould, a career in computer graphics and animation has taken him not just around the world, but around several worlds.

Since graduating from Bond University with a Bachelor of Computer Science in 1992, the former Palm Beach Currumbin High student has worked in Paris, London, New York, Los Angeles and New Zealand while roaming at will through the make-believe worlds of JRR Tolkein’s Isengard, King Kong’s Skull Island and Disney’s Dinosaur domain of Pangaea.

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