| Professional
Field and/or Present Occupation |
Education
- Teaching, School Administration (Principal) |
| Skills
and experience from the last 10 years which qualify her for this position |
Skills
in administration, public relations, personnel management and development,
team building, community relations and publicity associated with
the positions of: AFUW Vice-President, AFUW (Queensland) President.
In 2006, AFUW-Q awarded almost A$200,000 in fellowships, scholarships
and bursaries. Web Manager of AFUW-Q's website www.afuwq.org.au,
Editor of AFUW-Q's Newsletter "The Voice of Graduate Women
in Queensland". Mentor of a recipient of Hegg-Hoffet funding.
This woman has now satisfactorily obtained a position in a Qld Government
Department. Founder & President - Queensland Branch of Women
Welcome Women World Wide. Honorary Life member of the International
Women Welcome Women World Wide (2005). President- Qld Association
of State (Government) School Principals (QASSP). Metropolitan (Brisbane)
President - QASSP - Metropolitan Region (Bayside) School. Principal
of schools in Queensland ranging in size from 200 to 1134 students.
Member of Lyceum Club of Brisbane Involvement in community organisations:
Meals on Wheels, Safety House Schemes, Editor of newsletter for
an aged-care establishment.
|
| Goals
for the position and the contribution the candidate believes she can
personally make if elected or appointed |
As
a member of the Committee for the Award of International Fellowships,
my goal would be to work as a member of a team: to provide support
and enhance one of IFUW's key priorities, "The promotion of
lifelong learning, especially for women and girls" to identify
applicants who intend to undertake studies in IFUW's three key areas
for action: Education, the Information Society, and Human Security
and Peace to place university education within the reach of women,
who are, at present, unable to access it to enable women to undertake
advanced degree courses to enhance women's participation in scientific
and technological fields to support advanced research, study and
training for women graduates to provide education to women who may
proceed to positions of influence and high level decision-making
in their countries to enable women and girls to achieve their educational
goals.
|
| Education: |
University
of Queensland - B. Education Studies 1979 - Education, Educational
Administration, Psychology, History
Queensland University of Technology - Certificate of Teaching 1960
- all aspects of teaching |
| Mother
Language: |
English |
| Ability
to speak English: |
Excellent |
| Ability
to understand spoken English: |
Excellent |
| Ability
to read English: |
Excellent |
| Ability
to write English: |
Excellent |
| Other
languages: |
French
- a little- moderate ability to understand written word |
| Computer
skills: |
Considerable
experience sending e-mails and using the Internet |
| Internet
Access: |
Regular
access to e-mail at home or the office |
