The Police Association has teamed up with Monash University's Work and Employment Rights Research Centre to provide 25 scholarship places that will help members to understand workplace issues, improve employment relations and get the professional edge to STAND OUT FROM THE CROWD!

Course Outline Click HERE to read more about what the program covers.     Apply Online! Click HERE to fill out an application form online. If you require an application form to be posted to you, please contact the Communications section of the Police Association on (03) 9495 6899 or email general@tpav.org.au   More info? For more information about any aspect of the Employment Relations Professional Development Program, contact the Delegates' and Training Co-ordinator at the Police Association on (03) 9495 6899 or general@tpav.org.au To find out more about your course presenters and the work of Monash University's Work and Employment Rights Research Centre, click on the link below. http://www.buseco.monash.edu.au/mgt/research/werrc/    Journal Articles The Employment Relations Professional Development Program is offered to members in honour of three inspirational Police Association representatives who worked tirelessly for the Association and its members. Read more the about the program and the remarkable contribution of our three Association stalwarts, Francis Heaney, Phil Edge and Paul Carr in the January edition of The Police Association Journal.

When & Where? The Employment Relations Professional Development Program will be conducted over six days on; 17, 18, 19 April 2008 and 29, 30, 31 May 2008   On completion of the course, you may be required to attend the Association's Melbourne office to be presented with a certificate from the Police Association executive.   You may also be eligible for study leave. Click HERE to read the study leave policy in the Victoria Police Manual. The program will be presented at level 7, 30 Collins Street, Melbourne. There are a number of secure car parks available nearby in Collins Street, Exhibition Street and Flinders Lane. The venue is also easily accessible via public transport and is in short walking distance of both Parliament and Flinders Street stations. Trams 31, 109 and 112 also operate along Collins Street. For more information on public transport, visit the Metlink website. Travel and accommodation costs must be borne by the applicant, however members from regional areas may have their accommodation booked by the Police Association at a discounted rate.

	"The value of participating in the Police Association-WERRC program lies in the employment relations skills developed and in the broad-based industrial relations knowledge gained. Such skills and knowledge allow participants to more successfully handle workplace issues at they arise." Dr Marjorie Jerrard, program co-ordinator, WERRC, Monash University.
	"WERRC is proud to deliver a program that will offer Police Association members a rich learning experience, combining an understanding of the Australian industrial relations system with critical workplace and industrial skills." Associate Professor Peter Gahan, WERRC director, Monash University.
	"The skills I acquired as part of the Police Association scholarship have been invaluable in improving my workplace relations skills and industrial relations knowledge. It has allowed me to expand my knowledge of policing and assist my colleagues with industrial and workplace matters." Darryl McIntyre, Former TPA scholarship recipient.