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My name’s Catherine Balmer, I’m the Gender Studies Lecturer and Discipline Coordinator,
Victoria University. I’m a Gender Studies Lecturer and I’m surrounded by visual artists,
writers. I’m really quite well situated it’s a wonderful place, a lot of creativity.
We have really good quality teachers and really good quality up to date education curriculum.
I came from Latrobe. I did the first part of my degree at Latrobe and I moved here.
Very very different. Very different contact, very different contact with students and lecturers.
A lot more interaction with the lecturers, a lot more personal.
Other universities tend to be a little bit more, a lot of competition between students.
Victoria University definitely, there was a different feel to it. I was the first member
of my family to go to university. I sort of experienced a lot of some of the same difficulties
that students here sometimes experience. After experiencing an older university, a bit more
sort of traditional type of university, coming here, there is a lot more innovation, a lot
more sense of keeping up with new ideas. It was quite fresh. A lot of support for students,
there’s a lot of focus on pastoral care, you know we really spend a lot of time with
students trying you know make them feel comfortable, make their experience, particularly in the
first year. For a lot of students it’s about employability. For us it’s about developing
intellectual knowledge and awareness. I guess that they are going to come out of it with
a full all rounded degree, a rounded perception of the world around them, and maybe the ability
to hopefully be lifelong learners.