UOW will learn on Tuesday 1 December how it will fare in the1998 Australian Export Awards to be announced at Sydney’s Star City Complex.
The guest of honour and keynote speaker at the awards will be the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade, Mr Tim Fischer.
The University won the inaugural education category award at state level last month.
The national education winner will then compete against eight other category winners to decide the exporter of the year.
UOW won the NSW award for outstanding export achievement in education, education services, facilities, expertise and curriculum.
The Managing Director of the Illawarra Technology Corporation (ITC) and Vice-Principal (International), Mr Jim Langridge, said the award recognised substantial achievement in overseas earnings in 1997 which grew by more than 35 per cent.
The Postgraduate Association has recently installed Japanese on to its computers so Japanese students can send and receive email in their own language as well as browse Japanese internet sites.
The President of the Postgraduate Association, Scott Riddiford, said the idea had been such a hit that the association was going to add more languages on to the computers. The next language will be Chinese.
The association wants to alert all students to this new service.
The web site is: http://www.uow.edu.au/student/postassoc/