General Notices
1. 2017 Access Monash Mentor
Want to share your story and inspire young people to study at university? Become an Access Monash Mentor for 2017!
As a Mentor you will:
- Help students from under-represented schools decide on their pathway
- Run events, campus tours and mentoring sessions
- Join a network of other high-achieving Monash students
- Take part in exciting leadership and networking opportunities
- Get a Community Leaders Scholarship – $4000 per year!
We’re looking for students who have a 65% + average, can commit at least two hours per week and who have an understanding or personal experience of the barriers that can prevent students from coming to university (e.g. attending an under-represented school, financial disadvantage, first in family to attend university, non-English speaking background, living in a rural area).
Applications close at 5.00pm on Sunday October 30. Apply now!
Email the Access Monash team (accessmonash@monash.edu) if you have any questions. Good luck!
2. 2017 Prato & Malaysia Information Sessions
The Monash Law Faculty offers a program of international and comparative semi-intensive law subjects taught by distinguished academics and professionals from Australia and worldwide in Prato, Italy (April – June 2017) and Malaysia (June – August 2017).
Find out more about the application process, funding, accommodation and hear about the experience first-hand from students at these information sessions at Clayton Campus and the Monash University Law Chambers.
Clayton information session
Date: Monday 17 October 2016
Time: 1.00pm – 2.00 pm
Venue: H1 lecture theatre, Menzies Building, Clayton campus
Law Chambers information session
Date: Tuesday 18 October 2016
Time: 1.00pm – 2.00pm
Venue: Seminar room 8, 2nd floor, Monash University Law Chambers, Melbourne
3. Faculty Managed Internship: Herzog Fox & Neeman, Israel
Applications are now open and close Friday 16 September 2016 for the Herzog Fox & Neeman internship in Israel.
The internship will go for a minimum of 4 weeks from mid-January to mid-February 2017.
Further information including Application process & Eligibility details can be found here.
Student Mobility Funding may be provided, please see eligibility criteria.
Queries: law-international@monash.edu
4. International Students Work Rights Legal Service
A new International Students Work Rights Legal Service is now operating in Victoria.
JobWatch Inc, in collaboration with the Study Melbourne Student Centre and Inner Melbourne Community Legal, is operating this new legal service at the Study Melbourne Student Centre every Thursday.
Study Melbourne Student Centre (SMSC) is a free and confidential ‘one stop shop’ where international students in Victoria can access a range of free support, information and welfare services.
As part of the service, a JobWatch lawyer will be based at the Study Melbourne Student Centre each Thursday from 9.00am until 5.00pm to give international students free and confidential legal advice about work-related matters. JobWatch is also available to assist international students with work-related matters during the rest of the week.
Inner Melbourne Community Legal (IMCL) is available to assist international students with general law consultations (not including immigration advice). A lawyer from IMCL will be at the Study Melbourne Student Centre every Thursday afternoon.
The Study Melbourne Student Centre is located at 599 Little Bourke St, Melbourne (close to Southern Cross Station).
For queries please contact the Study Melbourne Student Centre by email (info@studymelbourne.vic.gov.au) or phone 1800 056 449 (free call from landlines).
5. Nygh Internship 2017
Are you a Postgrad student or Law graduate?
Here’s your chance to undertake an internship with Hague Conference on Private International Law in the Netherlands.
Applications for the 2017 Nygh Internship are open until Friday 30 September 2016.
Find more information here.