Training
Issue No. 11 - June/July 2003
Entrepreneurs in the Making at ABW
In November last year, while most Year 12 students were thinking about relaxing after exams, one group of young South Australians continued to take care of business.
Members of the University of South Australia’s best Australia Business Week team, from State and private schools from all over SA, were preparing for the ABW National Championships for 2002—and they came away winners.
Their task in the four-day competition was to simulate the organisation and promotion of the AFL in the year 2030. The team decided the AFL should have two seasons each year instead of one, that the salary cap should be discarded, that a series of State-based AFL training institutes be set up, and that pay TV broadcasting rights should be given exclusively to News Corp, to give the game a better chance at global exposure.
"I think they were very brave to suggest doing away with the salary cap and letting the market decide," says ABW program director for SA and University of SA lecturer, Gerard Stone.
The team was selected to represent SA after they competed in the South Australian ABW program in April. The program is well-established, established in 1992. Since then 47,000 Year 11 and 12 students have experienced the program.
The rationale is simple. Given the increasing pace of change in the workplace, it makes sense to introduce young people to business basics sooner. ABW’s declared objective is "to develop an enterprise culture in schools and communities ...
