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Awards night provides recruitment opportunity
Leading Sunshine Coast and national businesses will be on the lookout for star recruits at the University of the Sunshine Coast’s annual Faculty of Business Awards and Prizes Ceremony tomorrow (Tuesday 30 March) from 6pm.
The event is eagerly anticipated by student award winners as well as industry award donors who have a unique opportunity to meet some of the best business students in the region.
Media is welcome to attend the Faculty of Business Awards, which will be held at USC’s Innovation Centre auditorium. Guests will be arriving from 5.45pm.
Representatives of 33 local and national companies will present more than 50 academic prizes, scholarships and bursaries totalling more than $37,000.
Among the industry donors are ANZ Bank, Buderim Ginger, Garland Waddington, Juniper Development Group, Professional Investment Services, RACQ, Sunshine Plaza and the Taxation Institute of Australia.
The prizes are awarded to outstanding students in particular subjects, as well as to overall outstanding students in particular majors.
Theresa Tobin of Mooloolaba will receive three prizes. These are the $750 Schultz Toomey O’Brien Prize for the Best Student in Law of Business Associations; the $500 Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia Prize for the Highest Achieving Student in Financial Accounting; and the $250 John Wiley & Sons Australia Prize for the Best Student in Company Accounting.
Eleven other students will collect two prizes each.
Among them is Jessica Fuller of Noosaville who won the $400 Garland Waddington Prize for the Best Student in Property Law, and tied with another student to share the $1,000 Valuers Registration Board of Queensland Prize for the Most Outstanding Second Year Student in the Bachelor of Property Economics and Development.
Grahame Miller of Gympie also will receive two prizes. These are the $750 Love and Partners Prize for the Highest Achieving Student in Accounting Principles, and the $250 McGraw Hill Australia Pty Ltd Prize for the Best Student in Economics for Business.
— Terry Walsh