Course organiser:Neil Fleming
Presenter:Various
2 Mar:
Yvonne Evans on 'A Troop Entertainer Talks About the War in Vietnam'.After training as a primary school teacher Yvonne began singing full time in Melbourne. Later she spent time in Vietnam during the war as part of New Zealand’s participation. That included entertaining the American GI’s as a Kiwi girl in a Maori show-band.
9 Mar:
Roger Tindley on 'A Level Playing Field'.Roger is a former international music examiner. He will look at various facets of the task of maintaining a consistently uniform standard on a worldwide basis. He will also explore the preparation and training for examiners, conduct of examinations and moderation of results etc. and there will be an opportunity for questions and discussion.
16 Mar:
Frank Tay on 'A Brief Guide on Money - Its Creation and Control in the Modern Economy'.Frank will deal briefly with its functions, forms, features and the use simplified balance sheets of the banking system to show the creation and control of money by central banks. The guts of the talk will focus on the tools to influence money supply. Amongst the tools are the official cash rate in NZ, open market operations and quantitative easing in the US. The impact of government deficit financing on the money supply.
23 Mar:
Lois Binnie on 'A Small Mark on a Vast Landscape - My Part in Creating a City in Western Suburbs, Melbourne'.This session will tell of the delights and challenges of landscape, open space and recreation planning at Wyndham City Council.
30 Mar:
Jill Nuthall on 'Health Planners and the Public'.Consultation often gets a bad rap, but can be effective and rewarding. Jill will talk about her work with health planners, professionals, patients and the public testing proposals for changes in services and the way they are delivered.