How Well Do You Know Australia?

As KOM Consultant’s students are now preparing to start their Australian studies in July, we thought it would be a fun idea to test everyone’s general knowledge of the country, Australia!  Remember, try to answer the questions without Googling the answers!

Tune in Monday as KOM will post the answers so you can check your Aussie knowledge!

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University of Sydney Medical & Dental School applications will be closing in just over a month.  

The Application deadline for Sydney Medical School and Sydney Dental School is July 7, 2014.   

If you are interested in applying for the February 2015 intake, NOW is the time to prepare your application package. Applications must arrive in the KOM office no later than Thursday 3 July 2014. This ensures that we can review and process your application package to meet the deadline. …

Now this is happy…

SoulXPress is the University of Sydney Hip Hop society. Founded in 2006, SoulXPress is the main presence of hip hop and street culture at the University of Sydney.  It’s aim is to promote the four aspects of hip hop culture; dance, dj, mc and graffiti. They specialize in street style dance offering opportunities to learn; hip hop, breaking, popping, locking, urban choreography and many more.

International students are always encouraged to join the many clubs, …

Sydney, Australia is the most popular city in the world for international university students.

Sydney beat more than 80 cities including New York, Paris and London to the top spot, according to the 2014 Global Cities Index.

Global consultancy group A.T. Kearney, which compiled the index, ranked Sydney on top after studying international student populations.

The University of Sydney has more than 10,000 international students from 140 countries enrolled across all its faculties. …

Nobel Peace Prize Nominee

Doctor Catherine Hamlin, an Australian gynecologist who has spent most of her life in Ethiopia, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, at 90 years of age.

Referred to as a 21st-century Mother Teresa, Dr. Hamlin has revolutionised care of a childbirth injury called obstetric fistula, which occurs when the baby gets stuck in the birth canal and there is no doctor to perform a cesarean section. As many as two million women (and often young teenage girls) worldwide suffer from fistulas. …

The Sydney Juris Doctor (JD) 2015

Thinking of applying for the Sydney Juris Doctor (JD) in 2015?

Discover more about our graduate entry law degree by watching Victoria Eastwood’s story.

The 2015 Sydney Juris Doctor (JD) Guide is now available to order or download online.

The Guide outlines Sydney Law School’s professional graduate entry law degree and includes information on the following:

• Exchange opportunities
• Offshore opportunities
• Social justice program
• Careers and employment services
• Program structure
• Learning and teaching methods
• Teaching and assessment principles
• Professional recognition
• Units of study
• Scholarships

The Sydney Juris Doctor (JD) ushered in a new era for the Sydney Law School and its teaching of law at graduate level when it was launched. …

Proposals for new laws to protect individuals from invasions of privacy in the digital age will be outlined at the University of Sydney.

New technology allows unprecedented levels of intrusion, surveillance of personal activities and communication of private information but legislation has struggled to keep pace.

Professor Barbara McDonald from the Sydney Law School, who is heading the Inquiry into Serious Invasions of Privacy in the Digital Era at the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC), …

QS World University Rankings 2013/2014

Sydney Law School
Ranked thirteenth in the World
by QS World Rankings

Discover the world’s top universities with the QS World University Rankings® – the most widely read university comparison of their kind. As well as exploring the world’s top 800 universities overall, you can also compare the ranking of universities in a specific region, by subject area, or based on factors such as reputation or research citations. …

Come meet Flinders Medical School during the KOM Study in Australia Winter Tour taking place the first two weeks of March.  

See a listing of which Canadian Universities Flinders Medical School will be visiting.

Medicine at Flinders

The Flinders Medical School was the first in Australia to develop a 4 year graduate-entry Medical program, Doctor of Medicine, as an alternative to traditional 5-6 year courses for school leavers. …

University of Sydney’s Brain and Mind Research Institute (BMRI), is evaluating the effects of omega-3 supplements and antidepressants in reducing cognitive decline and depressive symptoms in older people, in a bid to prevent the onset of depression and dementia. Read more:http://bit.ly/1js0esL

A University of Sydney study is looking into the effectiveness of omega-3 supplements and the antidepressant, sertraline, in reducing depressive symptoms and cognitive decline in older people, in a bid to prevent the onset of depression and dementia in later life.The research, …