{Photograph}: Maja Baska
Postgraduate college students within the College of Sydney’s Enterprise College shared a spread of progressive concepts in June, as a part of a brand new initiative that invited proposed options to real-world points in Southeast Asia.
The results of a collaboration between the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre (SSEAC) and the Enterprise College, the ‘Make a Actual Distinction’ initiative supplied Grasp of Commerce college students the chance to use their analytical and problem-solving expertise within the Southeast Asian context.
Throughout the semester, college students have been offered with a spread of key challenges pertinent to a number of international locations in Southeast Asia, from meals safety and the unfold of misinformation to environmental degradation and the preservation of cultural heritage. Many of those challenges have been international in scope, and equally resonant for international locations comparable to Australia.
SSEAC’s tutorial members supplied college students with detailed steerage on matter areas and produced ten stand-alone movies that gave college students an outline of every nation in Southeast Asia, together with cultural, political and enterprise issues.
College students then labored in small groups on their chosen downside, conducting additional background analysis and testing concepts earlier than shaping their proposed options. On 17 June, 12 shortlisted proposals have been offered as a enterprise case to a panel of teachers in addition to business leaders, together with from CISCO AppDynamics, Maven Information, Nestlé and Ogilvy Australia.