Education Provider changes names

Intellitrain rebrands to Australis College.

Intellitrain is an award-winning training provider focused on ensuring that their students graduate with the skills and knowledge they need to find a job, advance their career, or build on their current skillset.

They have established a strong reputation in the financial services and mortgage broking sectors for the quality of the courses, trainers, and their service. They are trusted by companies large and small with NAB, CBA, RAMS, Ray White, LJ Hooker, St George and Citibank being just some of their clients.

Many of their graduates are working in the financial services and mortgage broking industries and a large number of their alumni are themselves award winning professionals.

In January 2014, we will be rebranding to Australis College and will be offering VET FEE-HELP funded Diploma level training, certificates and industry-relevant short courses in Business, Financial Services, Project Management and Mortgage Broking to the public market.

The vision for Australis College is to be Australia’s most trusted RTO.  Their mission will be to provide exceptional industry-relevant training that creates real employment outcomes for all of their students.

Because their brand promise is “job ready training, today,” they have a student-focused approach and all of their training is purpose built with that in mind – to ensure graduates are highly competent and job ready.

What does this mean for you?

All of the partners past and present will still be able to benefit by having access to a pool of highly trained job ready talent.

Plus, you no longer have to pay the cost of training potential employees, because under VET FEE-HELP the training is self-funded and the student loans the money and pays it back through the tax system, meaning our graduates are highly motivated and ready for employment.

The quality of our service is evident in the regular voluntary feedback we receive from their clients and students thanking their trainers for the high level of care and support provided.

This will always be their focus.

So if you want a training solution for your business, if you want to access job ready talent as part of your succession plan, or if you want to upskill yourself, get in touch because Australis College understand what makes a difference to your bottom line.

Australis College.  Job ready training, today. For their courses jump onto www.studyfinder.com.au for what options are available.

Make a difference in a person life – Become a weight loss consultant

The Australian College of Weight Loss Consultants is committed to raising the profile and improving the standards of Weight Loss Consulting in Australia. We have a network of award winning weight loss specialists and a panel of experts across the country.

We exist to recruit, train and develop world class Weight Loss Consultants. The Australian College of Weight Loss Consultants offers certificate and diploma level qualifications to get you started on your own weight loss business. Our graduates are invited to join our membership program and work with us throughout your new career.

The Australian College of Weight Loss Consultants offers a vast range of programs for our students and members to succeed in your full time or part time career or business as a Weight Loss Consultant. Many of our students and members continue on to publish their own work and develop a career as a professional speaker delivering keynote presentations, workshops and seminars.

If you are interested in more information on becoming a Weight Loss Consultant, check out our courses on offer or contact the Careers Team on 1300 969 367 or visit http://www.weightlosscollege.com.au

Behavioural Profiling now available on our main site

Studyfinder has teamed up with Onetest Personal Insight Profiles to give you insight into your unique behavioural style. This is a short, easy to understand measure of behaviour, based on one of the most widely accepted and used models of behavioural insight.Test yourself using this short, inexpensive online assessment to help:

• Find or change jobs – add your reports to your resume or share on your LinkedIn profile so prospective employers can get to know you better.
• Understand what makes you an asset to an employer – discover your unique strengths, qualities and motivators.
• Develop yourself – reflect on your strengths and challenges to increase your personal effectiveness.
• Improve relationships – share your reports with friends, family and colleagues to help them understand you better.
• Discover similarities and differences with others – swap reports with friends, family and co-workers to see how you complement each other and where your differences lie.

Check out now on www.studyfinder.com.au on our home page look for the profile section and sign up now to start your profile report. 

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Traxion training gets businesses qualified

Traxion Training is an innovative Registered Training Organisation offering simplified training solutions for busy businesses.

We deliver our training through a variety of delivery options.

Most clients prefer our convenient, easy to use online format which then adds one:one support through our team of professional trainers both in your workplace and from our help desk.

Traxion Training specialises in the development of ‘return on investment’ programs for sales organisations and team leader positions.

Customising standard training packages to incorporate company-specific topics that are highly relevant from your workplace is also an option.

Plus we specialise in facilitating government funding to cover the costs of our training services where possible – so often the employer is not out of pocket at all.

Traxion Training is a partnership that has grown from two long-established, independent consultants who joined forces to bring together individual strengths to develop a range of training products and services.

In fact, between our two directors we have a combined total of over 50 years business experience. Our purpose is to offer to the business community a range of training solutions for effective training of busy teams in a variety of organisations.

Traxion Training is committed to:

• offer only the highest quality training programs, backed by a support system that gives clients direct access to our company directors for support
• comprehensively qualify the end result desired so that all stakeholders are focused on achieving pre-determined outcomes
• plan projects to ensure deadlines are met and all parties responsible for activity are professionally managed
• ensure all deliverables are focused, add value and endure beyond the life of the project

For more information and the list of course options check out: http://studyfinder.com.au/pages/Traxion-Training.html  

Flight Centre creates a travel academy

Flight Centre Limited is Australasia’s best known travel agency group and now boasts more than 2,000 shops and businesses in 11 countries.

Flight Centre Limited’s best known and most successful business is the Flight Centre retail travel brand. Internationally, the company employs about 8,000 consultants and support staff. Now to add to the already decorated business, Flight Centre has created a travel academy to help train the future travel and tourism consultants.

At Flight Centre Travel Academy, they specialise in creating and providing tourism courses for individuals Australia-wide.

All Travel Academy trainers hold years of practical experience in Flight Centre Retail stores, experience training in the Flight Centre Novice Consultant programs, along with holding recognised travel and training qualifications with many Flight Centre best practice qualifications.

FCTA’s training combines training based on real-world experience with the training received by Flight Centre employees.

Students who complete the qualification receive a nationally recognised certificate. with locations operating in Brisbane and Melbourne and soon to open in Sydney, Adelaide and Perth, this is one awesome institute to look int if you want a Career in Tourism!

Check out there courses now: http://studyfinder.com.au/pages/Flight-Centre-Travel-Academy.html

Consider a career in Project Management.

We recently applied some new courses onto Studyfinder based on Project Management, these courses we added are delivered by 2 fantastic Institutes; 3TProjects and i Learning Solutions. Check out both these options as they are offering great incentives and also different options for studying ranging from online, face to face and RPL.

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Find your Future!

Australian Universities and TAFE Open Days: 2012

University  and TAFE Open Days

2012 Open Days

These dates may change without notice, please review on the Uni /TAFE websites.

Date	Institute Open Day	Location
25-Jul-12	Southbank Institute of Technology Info Night	South Brisbane, QLD
19-Aug-12	University of Notre Dame	Fremantle, WA
25-Aug-12		Sydney, NSW
29-Jul-12	QUT Open Day	Kelvin Grove, QLD
4-Aug-12	Monash University	Berwick, Gippsland, Peninsula, VIC
5-Aug-12		Caulfield, Clayton, Parkville, VIC
5-Aug-12	University of Southern Queensland	Hervey Bay, QLD
19-Aug-12		Toowoomba, QLD
26-Aug-12		Springfield, QLD
15-Jul-12	CQUniversity Open Day 2012	CQUniversity Brisbane
22-Jul-12		CQUniversity Gold Coast
22-Jul-12		CQUniversity Melbourne
29-Jul-12		CQUniversity Sydney
3-Aug-12		CQUniversity Gladstone
5-Aug-12		CQUniversity Noosa
12-Aug-12		CQUniversity Bundaberg
19-Aug-12		CQUniversity Mackay
26-Aug-12		CQUniversity Rockhampton
5-Aug-12	La Trobe University Open Day	Albury-Wodonga
10-Aug-12		Shepparton, VIC
17-Aug-12		Mildura, VIC
19-Aug-12		Bendigo, VIC
26-Aug-12		Melbourne, VIC
29-Jul-12	Edith Cowan University Open Day	Joondalup Campus
12-Aug-12		Mount Lawley Campus
19-Aug-12	Murdoch University	Perth, WA
5-Aug-12	University of Queensland	St Lucia, QLD
8-Aug-12		Ipswich, QLD
19-Aug-12		Gatton, QLD
26-Aug-12	UTAS Open Day	Hobart, Launceston, Cradle Coast Campuses
12-Aug-12	Griffith University	Gold Coast, Nathan and South Bank, QLD
12-Aug-12	RMIT University	Melbourne, VIC
25-Aug-12	Australia National University Open Day	Canberra, ACT
25-Aug-12	Australian Catholic University Open Day & Night	Canberra, ACT
26-Aug-12		Ballarat, VIC
12-Aug-12		Melbourne, VIC
25-Jul-12		Brisbane, QLD
1-Sep-12		North Sydney, NSW
8-Sep-12		Strathfield, NSW
26-Aug-12	Charles Darwin University Open Day	Darwin, NT
5-Aug-12	Curtain University Open Day	Perth, WA
12-Aug-12	Deakin University	Warrnambool, VIC
19-Aug-12		Geelong, VIC
26-Aug-12		Melbourne, VIC
17-18Aug 2012	Flinders University	Adelaide, SA
20-Aug-12	Holmesglen Institute of TAFE	Chadstone, Moorabbin, Waverley, VIC
19-Aug-12	James Cook University Open Day	Cairns, QLD
26-Aug-12		Townsville, QLD
5-Aug-12		Mackay, QLD
8-Sep-12	Macquarie University Open Day	North Ryde, NSW
19-Aug-12	Swinburne University	Melbourne, VIC
25-Aug-12	Sydney Uni Open Day	Sydney, NSW
19-Aug-12	University of Adelaide	Adelaide, SA
26-Aug-12	University of Ballarat	Ballarat, VIC
27-Aug-12	University of Canberra Open Day	Canberra, ACT
19-Aug-12	University of Melbourne	Melbourne, VIC
18-Aug-12	University of Newcastle Open day	Central Coast, NSW
25-Aug-12		Newcastle, NSW
30-Aug-12		Port Macquarie, NSW
19-Aug-12	University of South Australia Open day	Adelaide, SA
12-Aug-12	University of Sunshine Coast Open Day	Sunshine Coast, QLD
12-Aug-12	University of Western Australia	Perth, WA
26-Aug-12	University of Western Sydney Open Day	Parramatta, NSW
1-Sep-12	UNSW Info Day 2012	Kensington Campus, NSW
25-Aug-12	UTS Open day	Sydney, NSW

TAFE Victoria is having some challenges ahead…

Recently in the state of Victoria the Vocational Education and Training sector, specifically the TAFEs are facing new realities with huge budget cuts  handed out left right and centre. How does this affect the local student?

With the funding that TAFEs receive from State and/or Federal government helps towards providing a more affordable training platform for students to gain practical skill sets for gaining employment. Therefore in a nutshell, less funding means programs will go up in fee price or programs get axed, staff loses jobs, unemployment increases! FACT!

Some examples emerging online like this from the University of Ballarat (found on the ABC online website):

“The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) says the University of Ballarat has slashed 40 TAFE courses as a result of Victorian Government funding cuts.

The university will stop teaching the courses and will streamline the TAFE to address the loss of $20 million in State Government funding.”

or “A Latrobe Valley community action group has been formed to fight against state government cuts to TAFE 

About 200 people attended a community forum on the impact of TAFE funding cuts at Latrobe City Council offices.

The group, made up of current and former TAFE employees, Gippsland Trades and Labour Council, unions and the general public will lobby the state government to reverse funding cuts to TAFE.” 

But the problem is not isolated to Victoria, other states are now facing similar actions from their State Government counterparts, like in NSW, Hunter TAFE is axing up to 30 courses in the wake of TAFE revenue cuts of $16million. In QLD the similar circumstances may not be far from the books too as Premier Campbell Newman is reviewing spending across his govenrment bodies to find savings.

So how does this fit into the federal governments focus on skilling people up for employment and with a growing mining industry how does all this fit into the overall picture? Well we are still piecing it all together.

But for the future until…..it looks like TAFEs are doing it tough, maybe it is time the Federal Government steps up the funding and focus on where they need to evaluate the real needs for training. Today TAFEs and Unis work closer if not are dual sector players focusing on articulations, pathways and recognition of prior learning (RPL) to help assist people gain qualifications and practical work experience in the shortest and reasonable priced time frame making them more employable (this is the key of today)

How do we contribute to a solution? Well basically we dont have all the answers, within Studyfinder we have worked on methodologies to try and establish a way that students can obtain information on courses and compare prices, funding options and also the ability to seek RPL. One thing we are looking at is developing a way to create a pathway guide for all programs on our platform. Hopefully our tool can help students find their future. We are a small step but we aim to be the first most important step in your educational direction.

Anyway enough blogging we have work to do!

Interest in Engineering can be found in one Institute in Brisbane

Southbank Institute of Technology offering (Associate Degree) Engineering course to students wanting to seek employment as an associate professional, as a design drafter using computers in the production of drawings for a broad range of engineering applications

 

Studyfinder is spreading its wings.

The launch of StudyfinderNZ (SFNZ) is near, the countdown is on, a sneak peek into our NZ blog to begin with. The website for NZ will be launched soon. In the meantime we are still offering a great service to our Australian students, more Institutes are jumping onboard see some of the new members;

• 3T Projects
• Aurora Training Institute
• Kaplan Online Higher Education
• Registered Training Australia
• i Learning Solutions
• Australian Business School and many more….

Find a course you like enrol now!

Find your future now.