SWB Programs

Critical Voice

Critical Voice will be here very soon. We're looking at this program as a flagship program.

The Critical Voice will be at Murdoch every Tuesday, from 3pm till late evening, starting February 2008, at the Kim Beazley Lecture Theatre. Please navigate to the Community and Partner Organisation webpages within Programs for more information about the Critical Voice.

More Information

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The Forums

Gerry Georgatos of the Murdoch University Guild coordinated the Guild Forums during 2006 through the Kim Beazley Lecture Theatre, the Sports Grounds and at Banksia Gardens at Murdoch University.

They are being expanded into larger student voice forums, inviting all university community, at all Perth campuses.

forums@guild.murdoch.edu.au

Computer Literacy

In order to score an education you need computer literacy. It's like pen and paper. Since 2005 the students at Murdoch University have run very successful computer literacy workshops, trouble shooters, advanced computer workshops, in an ongoing basis for Murdoch students.

Gerry Georgatos, with Simon Knox, also worked with the University's Teaching Learning Centre to deliver Computer Workshops during 2005 and 2006. Gerry was the demonstrator for the Workshops at Murdoch's Rockingham and Peel campuses. It was through these workshops that Gerry discovered the high computer illiteracy of many students, and the large number of students with no computer skills at all. Gerry put together a number beginner classes and troubleshooter workshops to assist these students.

Computer literacy is imperative as it impacts upon academic performance and student retention. It is a quality of life issue in terms of the increasing technological environment we live in, and with all the emerging online technologies and imposts we have to cope with.

studentswithoutborders@rocketmail.com

Submissions and Shadow Reporting

During the last 6 decades, especially since the United Nations (1948), and even more so since the sixties, we have increasingly more mechanisms and instruments with which to ensure our voice and pursue change agency.

Mobilisation, rallies, sangreyaha, campaigning are always important, but where there is available opportunity it should be exhausted.

Submissions and Shadow reporting to government (local, state and federal), to HREOC, to the courts of the land, to the appropriate agencies, to your Universities Academic Planning boards, councils and to your University's Senates should be undertaken.

This is about reaching out, educating, unfolding, about policies of inclusion, about ensuring dissemination on all fronts.

Critical Voice will be out there on all campuses, but it will also reside alongside such programs as workshops that ensure quality research and preparation for submissions and shadow reporting.

The Human Rights language that we are unfolding and evolving is educating towards this path.

Coinciding with the workshops will be a series of public lectures and talks on submissions, shadow reporting, dissemination and exacting change.

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