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A basic computer class is not only teaching students about Microsoft Office and setting up a simple home office system, but also how to find their inner strengths and confidence.

Macquarie Community College has been named the NSW winner in the 2017 Adult Learners’ Week Awards, a worldwide movement that incorporates International Literacy Day on September 8. The award was judged on Open Day festivities in Carlingford and recognises the college’s contribution in addressing the gap between those who have access to education and those […]

Naturally, we all want to expand our professional skillset, advance our careers, and explore our interests. But whether we do a course or not is often constrained by a shortage of today’s most valued commodity: TIME.

We’re familiar with that feeling of dissatisfaction most people experience from time to time. You’re not sure what it is, but something’s got to change! Macquarie Community College have been delivering top-rated personal development, self-esteem boosting and self-improvement courses to Sydney residents for almost 70 years because of that feeling.

After a long and successful career in various senior office administration and secretarial roles Coralie says she is starting life over again by doing something very different, gaining formal qualifications and a new career in aged care.

A lot of Sydney institutions offer affordable certificates in childcare. The difference is that Macquarie Community College do childcare courses better. They provide face to face, real-life classroom learning. This is more advantageous than online courses as students can feel free to ask any question that pops into their head and get an immediate answer from their teacher – something you won't […]

Olga and Aziza stood in the close knit, supportive group of about a dozen women. They congratulated each other as each received a statement of attainment for their CareerPathways course in aged and disability care from Macquarie Community College. This NSW Government-funded part qualification holds the key to a career they are all excited about.

Being a Super mum has taken its toll, according to local Life Coach, Lisa Stallard. Marriages are failing, anti-depressants are on the rise and we’re experiencing an increase in childhood mental illness. Lisa’s observations are backed by statistics.

“I have always had a passion for genealogy and love helping people,” says Cheryl Venables from Create Your Family Tree short course at Macquarie Community College. “I can show you how to start your own family tree or add to current research where you may have hit a brick wall. Join me in an exploration and adventure to find and acquaint yourself with your ancestors!”

Winners from all walks of life have their own strategies and plans that help them succeed but they all have one thing in common – they TRY and keep trying. They persevere with an unwavering spirit until they attain what they had set out to achieve. Such is the story of Gary a 24-year-old young learner from Taiwan who walked into the portals of Macquarie Community College in the month of November last year, a persona of diffidence, apprehension and anxiety.

Gary had recently arrived in Sydney with negligible exposure to both the English language and to the Australian culture or way of life. He embarked on his journey to learn choosing Macquarie Community College to be his training ground. He exhibited a passionate spirit to learn and put into practice all that he was taught. There was not a moment of discouragement or disappointment in his approach to learning no matter how daunting and arduous he found the tasks assigned.