KOM Consultants is proud to be joining Bond University for a BOND WEEK TOUR coming up the week of February 13th-16th.   

Come meet Stuart Floyd, International Regional Manager from Bond University in person at selected local Ontario universities or watch him through a live online webinar taking place later in the week. 

Click here to be taken to the KOM Events page for a detailed listing of the university visits and presentations.   Visits include:
Monday 13 February – University of Windsor, 10am-3pm
Tuesday 14 February – University of Western Ontario, 10am-3pm
Wednesday 15 February – University of Waterloo – 10am-3pm
Wednesday 15 Februray – Wilfrid Laurier University – 3:30pm
Thursday 16 February – Brock University 10am-3pm 

To end off the tour, KOM is proud to present a Bond webinar taking place at 4:30pm on Thursday 16 February.  Register today for free  to listen and watch Stuart Floyd and ask questions through a live chat.  

He will be discussing the university and all the programs including the well-known law program, the Juris Doctor.   Bond Law has strong links with Canada with currently over 150 Canadian students studying law degrees at Bond.

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Bond University gives you the opportunity to study a degree in Law, Business, IT, Hotel and Resort Management, Sustainable Development, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Health Sciences and Medicine at Australia’s leading and highest rated university. 

Bond has Australia’s highest rating for graduate outcomes, teaching quality and student experience, and with the lowest staff:student ratio of any university in Australia, you’ll thrive in Bond’s small classes where our internationally renowned academics know each student by name.

When you’re not attending lectures and hitting the books, you’ll discover there’s even more to life at Bond University.   

 Our world-class campus gives you access to unparalleled study and recreational facilities, including two libraries, computer labs, studio facilities, e-courtrooms, a fully equipped gymnasium, sporting fields and an Olympic-size swimming pool. 

We have a wide range of active social clubs and on-campus student associations, counselling and medical facilities, English language tuition and tutorial support, as well as round-the-clock security. 

Situated in the heart of Queensland’s Gold Coast, you’ll also enjoy the lifestyle of our world famous beaches, shopping centres, nightclubs, restaurants, theme parks, National Parks and the opportunity to travel further afield to Sydney and the Great Barrier Reef. 

Bond University. We share your ambition. We bring it to life.

A team of Canadian business students won a prestigious $15,000 cash prize after presenting a commercial plan to use vertical gardens for company logos at the 2011 Griffith Innovation Challenge.  

 KOM is extremely proud to announce Verve Inc. is the brainchild of KOM students Matt Elieff, Jeff Beitz, Julian Irani and Thomas Proudlock.

 The challenge put the creative minds of students to the test with the opportunity to develop and present a business plan based on their own innovative product or service idea.  For more information on this great challenge, read on…

Here is what Matt Elieff said to KOM:  “I just wanted to take a moment to thank you and your team for encouraging myself and my business colleagues to study abroad in Australia. The year is winding down and has undoubtedly been the experience of a lifetime. During our time in Australia a group of us competed in an Innovation Challenge put on by Griffith University and were successful in winning the overall prize of $15,000.

The four of us who met while in Australia had all utilized KOM Consulting services to make this trip possible.”

Congrats to Matt, Thomas, Jeff and Julian!

In Flanders Fields

written in 1915 by John McCrae

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

Australians and Canadians stop what they are doing at exactly 11am in their local times on November 11 each year to dedicate a minute of silence for those who died in war, especially soldiers from as far back as World War I. Those who join in this act of remembrance include teachers, students, politicians, and workers of public and private sector enterprises.

Background
According to the Australian government’s Cultural and Recreation portal, Remembrance Day, which was originally called Armistice Day, commemorated the end of the hostilities for the Great War (World War I), the signing of the armistice, which occurred on November 11, 1918 – the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.

On the first anniversary of the armistice, in 1919, one minute’s silence was instituted as part of the main commemorative ceremony. After the end of World War II in 1945, the Australian and British governments changed the name to Remembrance Day as an appropriate title for a day which would commemorate all war dead.

The year 2008 marked the 90th anniversary of the Australian attack at Villers-Bretonneux. On April 24, 1918, Australian Imperial Force (AIF) soldiers attacked German forces that captured the French town of Villers-Bretonneux earlier that day. The action was successful, but the fighting was fierce, and many lives were lost on both sides.   Remembrance Day has been partly eclipsed by ANZAC Day as the national day of war commemoration.

Symbols
Red poppies are worn on blazers, shirts, jumpers and other items of clothing on Remembrance Day to remember those who died during a war. Poppies were among the first plants that came from the battlefields of northern France and Belgium during World War I. Some people believed the popular myth that poppies were rich in their redness because they blossomed from grounds that were saturated with soldiers’ blood.

Bond University webinar: Monday 5 December 2011 @ 1pm

Bond University gives you the opportunity to study a degree in Law, Business, IT, Hotel and Resort Management, Sustainable Development, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Health Sciences and Medicine at Australia’s leading and highest rated university.

Bond has Australia’s highest rating for graduate outcomes, teaching quality and student experience, and with the lowest staff:student ratio of any university in Australia, you’ll thrive in Bond’s small classes where our internationally renowned academics know each student by name.

Internationally, Bond has had great success in recent years, winning the International Criminal Court Mooting Competition in The Hague in 2009 and 2011, as well as numerous other Law and Business competitions.

When you’re not attending lectures and hitting the books, you’ll discover there’s even more to life at Bond University.

Our world-class campus gives you access to unparalleled study and recreational facilities, including two libraries, computer labs, studio facilities, e-courtrooms, a fully equipped gymnasium, sporting fields and an Olympic-size swimming pool.

We have a wide range of active social clubs and on-campus student associations, counselling and medical facilities, English language tuition and tutorial support, as well as round-the-clock security.

Situated in the heart of Queensland’s Gold Coast, you’ll also enjoy the lifestyle of our world famous beaches, shopping centres, nightclubs, restaurants, theme parks, National Parks and the opportunity to travel further afield to Sydney and the Great Barrier Reef.

The Sydney Law School Foundation established the Sydney Law School Foundation International Scholarship.  There are a limited number of scholarships to support outstanding international students undertaking the Juris Doctor program with the Sydney Law School.

The Sydney Law School Foundation International Scholarship is worth AU$10,000 payable in two equal installments in late March and late August in the first year of study.

Applicants must have received an unconditional offer of admission to a Juris Doctor program for the 2012 intake and can not be in receipt of any other tuition scholarship.

With the scholarship application, applicants must include a personal statement that should set out academic and extra-curricular or professional achievements, and outline why you want to undertake your chosen course and what you hope to achieve following graduation.  As well, students must provide a reference letter.

 The application deadline is Friday 27 January 2012. 

Contact KOM for more details and the application. 

Here is what a KOM client had to say about studying the JD program at University of Sydney: 

“In my experience, the Sydney JD has enabled me to immerse myself in a unique academic program, emphasizing international law and global practice. With distinguished faculty members, an ambitious and inspiring student body, and broad educational resources, I have found Sydney Law School to embody the intellectual vitality characteristic of large academic institutions, while still offering the advantages of academic intimacy. I know that with this experience I will leave law school capable and confident in my ability to succeed in a highly competitive international forum.”
Allegra Geller, Canada – Sydney Juris Doctor (JD)