Reconciling career enhancement with the day-to-day demands of a job has long been recognised in the way the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) develops its courses for postgraduate and mature-age students.

From September 5 to 11, UTS will run a Careers and Courses Week aimed principally at prospective postgraduate and mature-age students, with information sessions scheduled for times that will be convenient for most working people.

For those who can't visit the University in person, a special website will be active from September 1 at http://ccweek.uts.edu.au. The website will feature "virtual" tours of postgraduate student life and interactive activities, including scheduled times for academic and student services staff to answer on-line questions.

The Virtual Careers and Courses Week also will give the on-line visitor a taste of UTS courses via video clips of "mini lectures" by UTS academics. People who access these lectures can sample learning experiences in interior design, education, business and physics/science.

The site follows the format of June's successful UTS Virtual Openday (which still can be seen at http://www.openday.uts.edu.au), but with an accent on postgraduate studies. Some of the tour-guide characters used for the Virtual Openday have been transported five years into the future and now give their perspective on the experience of graduate study at UTS.

The "in person" Careers and Courses Week information sessions will be held on Saturday afternoon (September 5) and then from Monday to Friday in the early evening at the city and Kuring-gai campuses.

For further information about session times, contact Tilda Sikes, External Relations Unit, tel: (02) 9514 1697.