Welcome to the Bankstown Community College website!
by Luke Simon, CEO and Principal
Posted on 15/07/2010
Due to the overwhelming popularity of our Cake Decorating courses, we are now offering two extra classes on Saturdays: A third Beginners class, and a second Intermediate class!
CDB310C Cake Decorating for Beginners, starting Sat July 31, 2010. Classes will run every Saturday between 10:00am and 12:00pm. The fee for this course is $135 (GST incl).
Enrol
CDI310B Cake Decorating Intermediate, starting Sat July 31, 2010. Classes will run every Saturday between 12:30pm and 2:30pm. The fee for this class is $135 (GST incl).
Enrol
Posted on 30/06/2010
There are still places available in our free childcare course held at Toongabbie Community Centre. For further details please see item posted on 26/05/2010 below and/or contact the College.
Posted on 21/06/2010
TERM 3 BROCHURE
Our Term 3 20-page brochure is available now- all currently-enrolled students will receive a brochure from their tutor if they are not studying at the College. Students attending classes at the College can pick up a copy from the College.
Look out too for our pamphlet which will be inserted in the Sydney Morning Herald on July 12 for residents living in the Bankstown and surrounding areas.
If you would like a brochure posted to you please call us on 9793 8155.
ONLINE ENROLMENT
Our online enrolment is being finalised and should be live by the end of this week. Thank you for your patience while we finalise this major project.
Posted on 08/06/2010
Bankstown Community College will be participating in Bankstown Council's Government Services One-Stop-Shop forum this Thursday 10th June 2010 between 6:30pm and 8:00pm at the Bankstown Town Hall. Come along to find out more about the services offered by our College and those offered by other community organisations in the Bankstown area.
Posted on 26/5/2010
Do you want a career in Childcare?
In partnership with AMES and Holroyd City Council, Bankstown Community College will be offering a free LINKED SKILLS 10-week training course covering 6 Units of Competency from the Certificate III in Children's Services (CHC30708) . The training will include English language support, covering three Modules from the Certificate III in Spoken & Written English (91423NSW) as well as work experience in an accredited childcare centre/facility.To be eligible you must be a permanent resident or Australian citizen, be over 18 years old and and have reasonable spoken and written English.The course dates are June 28- September 17. Training will be conducted at the Toongabbie Community Centre. There will be no classes during the July School Holidays. You will need to register for the Information Session on June 11 and then attend an interview in order to be considered for the free training. Please call the College on 9793 8155 to register for the Information Session and/or for further details. Places are limited. Bankstown Community College acknowledges the funding from DET for this project and the support of our partners, AMES and Holroyd City Council.The training is free for eligible participants.
Posted on 21/5/2010
We are currently working on the pamphlet and brochure for Term 3. We have revised our range of computing courses for next term and believe that our community will appreciate both the clarity of our courses and of our descriptions as well as the fact that there are now computing classes scheduled in the mornings, the afternoon, evenings and on the weekend too.
If you or a family friend or loved one is wanting to join our English classes next term (commencing July 26th), appointments for an English assessment are being taken now.Assessment days are Mondays from 9.30am - 3.30pm.Other times are available by appointment only. It is important to bring along your passport to the assessment interview as this helps the College to determine the applicable fee.
Posted on 13/5/2010
Now that Term 2 has well and truly started, the College can take enrolments for both Term 3 and Term 4 courses. The only way to ensure your place in a course is to enrol and pay the course fee. In the past, some of our clients have been disappointed when a course they were keen on doing, sold out. The College cannot guarantee which courses will sell out or when.Sometimes, popular courses sell out even before they are advertised. To ensure course satisfaction and individual attention all of our classroom-based courses have a maximum of 15 and only 13 in computing-based courses.
If you would like us to send you a Term 2 brochure please send us an email, give us a call or drop by the College.The summary pamphlet of all our courses is available on this page for viewing or downloading (to the right of this message).
We are currently busy working on next term's brochure, but in the meantime, we have already started updating course details here on our website- we expect this work to continue through to next week.All course desciptions included in the brochure are also included herein on these pages.
BROCHURES
We have decided that from this year will will try and minimise the amount of paper we use. If you miss the summary pamphlet distributed in The Torch, this mini-pamphlet is also available upon request. The PDF of our 20-page brochure will be posted on this web site and it too will be available by request.Please give us a call on 9793 8155 and we shall make arrangements to post you the brochure free of charge.Multiple copies of the 20-page brochure are also now available from the Bankstown Centro Shopping Centre Info Desk and from various community organisations.If you are a community group not on our mailing list and you wish to receive mutliple copies of the College brochure please give us a call.
In our concerted efforts to be more environmentally-friendly we have logged our enrolment statistics for the last two years and have found that our overall enrolment each term is less than 1% of the number of brochures we have been publishing (80,000). It simply did not make any sense for a not-for-profit organisation to be allocating more than 15% of its annual budget on printing brochures which do not actually translate to enrolments. As you would be aware, the College needs to earn the majority of its expenditure through the selling of its courses.
We hope you can be supportive of our goals to not waste paper and do our bit to be more environmentally friendly.
IMPROVED ACCESS FOR EVERYONE
If you have not visited the College for a while make sure to drop by to check out our new wheelchair chair lift which has been installed to assist clients who cannot manage the stairs to the College. You do not need to be using a wheelchair to use the chair lift- anyone young or old can make use of the chair lift if climbing the stairs is something you cannot manage.
Luke Simon
CEO
NEWSFLASHES!
* Several new members of staff will be joining the College this term bringing a wealth of experience and skills to their teaching including a new teacher of Arabic and new teachers for a number of our Computer courses.
* Two nationally-recognised & accredited Beauty courses will be offered in Term 3.For more information please click on the Beauty Services link.
* An Employment Pathways in Beauty & CSWE course will be commencing on Monday April 19th at the College.This course is open to eligible Level 3 AMES students.Please contact your AMES Centre and/or the College for further details.
*The College's summary pamphlet of courses was included in THE TORCH newspaper on Wednesday 21st April.Both the pamphlet and the 20-page brochure are available free of charge from community venues, libraries and TAFE Counselling Units.
Latest News
Enrolment Week and Enrolment for English Classes
Thursday, 17 December 2009
The Office will remain open until 7 pm on Tuesday 20 April, 2010 to assist our clients who may prefer to visit us in person and complete their enrolment face-to-face. Additionally. This date is also the Enrolment/Assessment night for clients interested in our accredited English classes.
If you wish to enrol in our English classes, please contact our office in order to make an appointment for a brief interview. Please come with approximately 45 mins to spare.
ICET Project
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
Bankstown Community College is grateful for the Federal Government's funding which has allowed us to refurbish our computer labs. This project is funded by the Australian Government through the Teaching and Learning Capital Fund (TLCF) for Vocational Education and Training (VET).
This project is now completed.