About Us


Awards


World Champions! Advantage SIFE team claim victory in Barcelona, Spain
World Champions. Curtin Advantage SIFE team claim victory in Barcelona, Spain
Our programs have won a number of state, national and international awards.
These include winner of Young Achievement Australia state and national Award for Business Plan, Company of the Year, Most Innovative Company and Best Marketing Plan in 2001, 2003, 2004.

Advantage also gave Curtin University of Technology the means to win first place in the ‘Students in Free Enterprise’ (SIFE) international competition in Barcelona (2004) which gave Australia the honour of being the first country other than the U.S.A to win the SIFE World Cup in 29 years.

In 2005 we were also honoured to win the Australian Awards for University Teaching - Institutional Awards.




Tracey Hodgkins with Telstra WA Business Woman of the Year award
Tracey Hodgkins with Telstra WA Business Woman of the Year award
Our founder Tracey Hodgkins has also been honoured with numerous awards including :

  • Business and Higher Education Roundtable Entrepreneurial Educator of the year 2003
  • Brownes Everywoman and the Year Award for Education2004
  • Hudson community and Government Award 2005
  • Telstra WA Business Woman of the Year 2005

Industry feedback has always been extremely positive. As a consequence, requests to be involved in the program from industry (including government departments), and students from other universities have increased significantly.

International partners are also becoming involved in the design of new community projects which have promoted greater opportunities for the students to develop their understanding of internationalisation and globalisation in business enterprises.