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Commonwealth Study Fellowships for Teachers of Chinese

The Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training has announced it will be providing Endeavour Lanugage Teacher Fellowships in 2004 for primary and secondary school teachers of Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, French, German and Italian.

The Fellowships will be for a period of three weeks, comprising two weeks of intensive language and cultural studies and a seven day
field trip.

Further information and application forms can be downloaded from
the DEST website - Click Here.

The selection of successful applicants will be carried out by the relevant State Education authorities. In the case of Victoria, it
is the Languages Strategy Team, Student Programmes Division, Department of Education and Training.

Teachers interested in applying for one of the Fellowships should
submit their application without delay to Ms Therese Mercader,
Manager, Languages Strategy Team, Department of Education &
Training, Level 2, 33 St. Andrews Place, East Melbourne 3002

Closing Date for applications is Friday, 26 September 2003.


Department of Education, Science & Training
Canberra

1 September 2003