Curtin Fashion Students’ Designs Grace Catwalk in Beijing

  • By Peter Sommerville
  • Aug 10 2017
  • Category: News
Curtin Students, Emma Watson and Sophie Watson, display their collections in Beijing. AWET provides 25 grants each year to final year fashion students to assist them to utilise wool fabrics in their final year collections. Two of these students, Emma…
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Animal Production 2018 – Call for Abstracts

  • By Peter Sommerville
  • Jul 23 2017
  • Category: News
NOW OPEN The Australian Society of Animal Production, together with CSIRO Publishing, will prepare a special edition of Animal Production Science to be distributed at the Animal Production 2018 conference, 2-4 July 2018, in Wagga Wagga, NSW. The first call…
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Professor David Cottle Retires

  • By Peter Sommerville
  • Jul 13 2017
  • Category: News
Founder of the Hub and Spoke model retires. Professor Cottle was an Associate Professor of Wool Science in the Department of Wool and Pastoral Science at the University of NSW in the 1990s. When the school was closed David worked…
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Australian Society of Animal Production 2018

Fostering innovation through the value chain The 32nd Biennial Conference of the Australian Society of Animal Production, Animal Production 2018, will take place from July 2-4 at Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales. The 2018 Organising Committee…
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Access to CRC for Premium Quality Wool Resources Improved

  • By Peter Sommerville
  • Jul 1 2017
  • Category: News
Improved access to CRC for Premium Quality Wool Resources. The Australian Wool Education Trust holds in trust the educational resources created by the CRC for Premium Quality Wool during its activities from 1993-2000. This resource collection consists of some 2500…
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AWET Sponsored Student Wins Major Fashion Prize

  • By Peter Sommerville
  • Jun 29 2017
  • Category: News
AWET grant recipient wins a prestigious prize. Hannah Tan, a student at UTS and one of the recipients of the 2016 AWET fashion student grant, won the Australian Fashion Fund Scholarship/Internship Prize for 2016/2017, with the collection facilitated by the…
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Woolwise Undergoes a Major Renovation

  • By Peter Sommerville
  • Jun 4 2017
  • Category: News
Woolwise.com was originally developed as a resource for educators, researchers, consultants, students and other stakeholders in the wool industry. The range of devices used to visit websites has increased. Most people use PC’s, tablets and phones for this purpose. However,…
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Class of 2017 Tocal Students Awarded AWET Scholarships

  • By Digital Arm
  • Mar 23 2017
  • Category: News
AWET provides scholarships for students attending VET colleges, studying wool and sheep. Three of these scholarships are awarded to students enrolled in Tocal College, NSW The scholarships for 2017 were awarded to Jack Finch, Meg Crouch and Kate Blair-Hickman. Each…
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Fashion Design Student Grants

  • By Digital Arm
  • Feb 14 2017
  • Category: News
AWET is extending its educational investments to include Fashion Design Students In 2016 the Australian Wool Education Trust funded a pilot project for Fashion Design Students. This project will provide funding for students to purchase wool fabrics for their final…
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Honors Scholarship Winners for 2017

  • By Digital Arm
  • Jan 5 2017
  • Category: News
AWET has been funding scholarships for Honours and Masters by Coursework students since 2008. These scholarships are intended to assist the applicants in funding their research project. Commencing 2017 the value of each scholarship was increased from $6000 to $7000.…
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