"The role of executive education is shifting, " says Paul Kirkbride, associate dean at Melbourne Business School, a leading institution in the Asia-Pacific area.

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Outside of North America and Europe, some of the highest rankings achieved in the Asia-Pacific come from the Melbourne Business School, the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai, the Hong Kong UST School of Business, Macquarie GSM, the Australian GSM and Singapore's Nanyang Business School.

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The 2006 Commonwealth Games swimming championships in Melbourne caused great excitement in our school when former pupil David Carry won gold medals in the 400m freestyle and individual medley events.

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After watching hours of art-films in Melbourne, Tan decided to make films himself and bagged a place in the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, where entry is by competitive scholarship.

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