Woon Ling Chew (Victoria) awarded AWET Scholarship to attend IWTO, Adelaide 2024
AWET offered grants to attend to attend the International Wool Textile Organisation conference to be held in Adelaide in 2024. This presents an ideal opportunity for AWET scholars to access global experts from the wool textile pipeline, to gain an…
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Just A Farmer Speaks to the Power of Authentic Storytelling
Courtesy Netflix By Abhi Parasher April 19, 2023 Currently in release the Australian film starring Leila McDougall, Robert Taylor, Susan Prior, Joel Jackson and Trevor Jamieson, marking the feature directorial debut of Simon Lyndon. Merely sitting through the credits of…
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Peter Sommerville retires as AWET Secretary
Peter Sommerville is well known to all of those involved in delivering the education projects funded by the Australian Wool Education Trust (AWET). He has been both a Trustee and the Secretary of AWET since 2006. Over those 18 years,…
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Applications for 2023 Undergraduate Project and Honours scholarships close on Friday 24th November 2023.
Applications Applications for 2023 scholarships close on Friday 24th November 2023. Applicants must download the following 3 documents: Scholarship Application Instructions Scholarship Application Form Academic Referee’s Assessment Applications for these scholarships must be made directly to the Trust and must…
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PIEFA new website is now live!
PIEFA announces its new fully responsive website is now live that understanding the journey of our food and fibre from farm to plate is crucial for fostering a sustainable and resilient future. We’re confident that our new website will continue…
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Wool For School
Wool4School is an annual student design competition encouraging emerging fashion designers to promote the unparalleled properties and benefits of wool. The competition is open to most secondary school students in Australia, Hong Kong, United Kingdom and Italy. AWET provides some…
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New on The Woolmark Learning Centre: Woolgrower Program
Discover Woolmark’s first course tailor-made for Australian woolgrowers – Price Risk Management – on The Woolmark Learning Centre. Learn about the sale of wool with expert-led content created in partnership with industry experts, Southern Aurora Price Risk Management. This course…
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Dr Jane Littlejohn nominated as an AWET Trustee
Dr Jane Littlejohn has been nominated by Australian Wool Innovation Ltd to replace Professor Andrew Vizard. Jane’s qualifications include BVSc, MVPHMgt, Grad Dip An Sci (Animal Breeding Mgt), GAICD. From 2008 t0 2013 Jane worked for AWI as Project Manager…
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Educating Farmers Using Augmented Reality
Augmented reality is an evolving technology increasingly being applied in education programs. This is one example. Melbourne University is also creating “Virtual Farms” as a means to educate students in Agriculture Degrees.
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AWI Woolgrower eNewsletter – November 2022
AWI’s eNewsletter for wool growers for November 2022 is now available. It includes: Market Intelligence Report on AGM 2022 Flood Resources information Management tools Purchase of Geelong Textile Group by Australian Textile Investments Effective residue management Domestic Processing: Dream of…
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