New Mid-term Intakes, New Courses

and More Uni Options

VET

We are very pleased to announce that we now offer a mid-term intake for all VET courses. This means that students who have missed enrolment at the beginning of a term start date can now enrol up to the end of week 4 to start in week 5 or 6. Conditions apply, please enquire.

DIPLOMA OF TOURISM

As you may know we have extended our course offerings to include Diploma of Tourism. This course provides skills and knowledge for students to be competent in a range of well-developed international retail, travel sales and operational skills. It also teaches a broad range of managerial skills, specialising in tourism operations. The course is offered at the CBD and Bondi campuses. Course length: 4 terms – 48 weeks.

READ MORE AT:

http://www.apc.edu.au/courses/vocational/diptourism.html

DISCOUNTED BARISTA COURSES at the BARISTA BASICS COFFEE ACADEMY for APC STUDENTS

These courses provide students with immediate job skills and are developed in conjunction with representatives from the coffee industry, the TAFE system and with the State Government’s Nationally Recognised Training system. It is run by Barista Basics Coffee Academy and it incorporates basic barista skills to produce espresso excellence. The Ultimate Barista course is designed to give participants extra practical experience on the espresso machine to refine their coffee-making skills and technique.

Course length

• Barista Basics: 3 hours - Special APC fee of $99
• Master Barista: 5 hours – Special APC fee of $210

EXPANDED VET ARTICULATIONS TO UNIVERSITY

Please note that we now have 10 institutions who offer articulations from our VET programs. In some cases, up to 50% of a Bachelor’s program – please visit our website or click here for further details www.apc.edu.au/pdfs/APC_VET_Articulation.pdf

Coming soon at APC...

Diploma of Marketing and Advanced Diploma of Marketing

We will shortly be offering a Diploma of Marketing and an Advanced Diploma of Marketing later in 2011. Watch this space for updates.

EAP is now only 10 weeks (from 12 weeks) format!

We are pleased to announce that our “new look” English for Academic Purposes course will be in a 10 week format as of the next intake on 28 March 2011.

NEW BRISBANE CAMPUS
- APC and English Unlimited

APC has a new campus in Brisbane which will soon deliver VET programs. Currently we are accepting enrolments for English courses only at our sister school, English Unlimited Brisbane

READ MORE AT:

www.apc.edu.au/news/APC_EUB_Announcement1Nov2010v1.1.pdf and www.apc.edu.au/news/LaunchAPCBrisbanev1.1.pdf

New APC Staff

We welcomed several new staff members and new appointments at APC recently:

• Ms Pam Segal: Manager and Program Coordinator – School of Tourism and Hospitality; Quality Assurance and Accreditation Manager.
• Ms Angel Wong: Acting Senior Marketing Manager
• Ms Youngeun Song: Principal Administrator – English Unlimited, Brisbane (our sister school)
• Ms Olga Vogel: Team Leader – Student Services
• Ms Emma Hall: Student Services Officer (Pathways and Alumni)

They all bring a wealth of experience and knowledge to APC and their combined skills and professionalism all contribute to the continual improvement of the college's services offered to our students.

Jobs & Internships (Work Experience)

We now have a jobs board:

• For APC staff positions: http://www.apc.edu.au/aboutAPC/jobs.htm
• For positions outside of APC: find part-time jobs posted on APC's facebook page.
• We also have positions available for internships/work experience at APC and/or our sister school English Unlimited Brisbane – please refer to our website under "Internships".

READ MORE AT:

www.englishunlimited.com.au/our_courses/business_english_internships

Visa News

New Student Visa DIAC Assessment level changes reminder from 1/4/2011.

READ MORE AT:
www.immi.gov.au/students/