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Professional Pathways Australia

Professional Pathways Australia is committed to supporting international students and graduates fulfill their career ambitions.

Through our extensive networks and partner programs across Australia, Professional Pathways Australia can help you engage in work experience with a quality host company. Learn the fundamentals of working in a specialised field associated with your study. 

Professional Pathways Australian programs include:

  • The ACS Professional Year (ICT)
  • The Skilled Migration Internship Program for Accountants (SMIPA)
  • Internships: Custom-designed internship placements for international students either from abroad or studying in Australia
  • International internships for Australian students or graduates seeking an outbound program in Europe, North America, or Asia.

 

For more information about the program, please contact

Professional Pathways Australia
Phone (03) 8622 8900
Email enquiry@professionalpathwaysaustralia.com.au
Website www.professionalpathwaysaustralia.com.au

 

RMIT

As part of the Bachelor of Business, Business Information Systems degree at RMIT, the students do a final year Capstone subject. The students are grouped into teams of 6 and are required to specify, design and implement an information system. The goal is that the students develop a real project for a real client and experience the entire software development life cycle.

If you, your company, or your organisation would like to consider having a software project undertaken for free, please contact:
Arthur Adamopoulos:
arthur.adamopoulos@rmit.edu.au
(03) 9925 5782

Please take the time to read the following project guidelines at: http://www.rmit.edu.au/bus/bit/biscapstoneoverview

 

University of Melbourne

The University of Melbourne is providing opportunities for community organisations to have a team of final year Information Systems students implement an IT project for FREE!

The University of Melbourne’s Department of Information Systems is currently on the lookout for IT-based Industry Projects.

Industry Projects involve final year Department of Information Systems (DIS) students (5 per team) working with individual organisations to identify and work on projects of value to that organisation. This is a great opportunity for community organisations to gain access to talented Information Systems students to help in the development of websites, databases or similar projects. 

Students will spend around 120 hours each on a real-life problem/idea with an individual from industry as their "client", and an academic member of the department as an industry mentor.

Projects typically involve some kind of information systems development - for example:
- Small database systems
- Website design and development
- Requirements analysis (for larger projects)

The main criteria for selection include a stable industry partner/client, willing to provide a few resources in the form of committed staff, a real problem to solve, and a project of curriculum relevance.

The best projects involve a blend of business and technology. They don't ask for any financial contribution from clients. Through these projects the university hopes students can demonstrate that they have learned, and can integrate and apply, a number of skills:
- Team and project management skills, including project management documentation;
- Communication skills, written and oral;
- Technology skills;
- Business and systems analysis skills, including system documentation

The university would love to have more submissions from community organisations keen for assistance in these areas.  These projects are a fantastic opportunity for students to gain real industry experience working with a client and completing a project to deadline. 


If you would like to register a project, please visit the project website at http://disperse.dis.unimelb.edu.au/iproject/index.asp
For further information contact Greta Harrison on gretah@unimelb.edu.au