Professor answers questions about uni and career choices | Curiosities | UTS [Video]

Attended an open day but still have questions? Join us for this episode of Curiosities, as Associate Professor Amanda White OAM answers your curious questions about all things career, courses and navigating university entry.

Amanda is an accounting and audit educator passionate about helping students build successful careers in accounting. With a love for edtech, she creates engaging learning experiences to prepare students for a diverse and dynamic workplace.

Amanda is a strong advocate for sharing open-access, high-quality educational resources. She actively uses social media in her teaching (you can find her on Instagram), and her YouTube channel, @amandalovestoaudit features her class materials, interviews with professionals and study tips. It has over 100,000 subscribers. Her FREE textbook, Accounting and Accountability, is an innovative open resource with interactive elements, personal stories and an audiobook for flexible learning.

Her research focuses on accounting education and academic integrity, and she has been recognised by TEQSA as an academic integrity masterclass trainer. Amanda’s contributions to student learning were acknowledged with an Australian Awards for University Teaching (AAUT) Citation in 2017, and in 2021, she received the AAUT Teaching Excellence Award for Law, Economics, Business and related studies. She was also a runner-up for Australian Teacher of the Year.

With prior professional experience as a trainee at Coopers and Lybrand and as a Senior Consultant at PwC, Amanda has provided operational risk management to the financial services and services industries.

Find out more about Associate Professor Amanda White OAM: https://profiles.uts.edu.au/Amanda.W.White

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00:00 Introduction
00:30 If I don’t get the ATAR I need, what are my options?
01:35 How do I find the right career path for me?
02:26 How do you choose the right course and university for you?
03:26 Is university a place that supports neurodivergent students?
04:17 I am interested in both accounting and law. Can I combine them with a double degree?
04:46 How can I get more detailed information about a specific course?
05:12 What is the application process for a course at university?
05:38 What are the requirements for admission into a course?
06:09 Can I get credit for prior learning or previous studies?
06:51 I am not from a fancy private school or selective high school, no one in my family has ever been to uni – is uni still for me?