University Of Sydney

Our scholars and students share a passionate commitment to the transformative power of education. Our research makes a real difference to our understanding of today's world and how we work and live in it, and we enrich our community by bringing together people from all social and cultural backgrounds. The University of Sydney is a place that makes things happen. We are a community not just of excellence, but of impact. Here are just some of the remarkable things that our academics, students and alumni achieved in 2012. Through our Strategic Plan 2011–15 we aim to strengthen our ability to enable the brightest researchers and the most promising students, whatever their social or cultural background, to thrive and realise their full potential to benefit both Australia and the wider world.
 Watch our video about our researchers and how their collaborative work is delivering real-world solutions that will contribute to the communities we serve. They are improving health, supporting the environment, providing new opportunities and changing our understanding of culture, economics and politics. This is work not just of excellence, but of impact.
 The Charles Perkins Centre aims to address the pressing problems of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease: the leading causes of mortality and disease burden in Australia.
 A unique collaboration across all of our faculties, centre members aim to turn their academic discoveries into solutions that transform how people around the world eat, live and work.
 Our academic and teaching excellence has always been founded on principles of diversity and equity. Diversity makes good ideas better and enriches our University community.
 Find out how we are building partnerships to attract promising students from all backgrounds, and investing time and money into making sure they are properly supported while they study.

Murdoch University

At Murdoch we have more than 22,500 students and over 2,600 staff, including 2,000 overseas students from around 100 countries studying in Perth and another 6,500 studying offshore. That’s more than 25,100 unique stories, backgrounds and ways of thinking that help us to make a difference in the world.
 In Western Australia, our South Street campus has a range of facilities including a comprehensive vet hospital (with WA’s only equine operating theatres), engineering pilot plant, a chiropractic clinic, Media Arts centre and more. We also have campuses in Singapore, opposite the National Library in the education hub, and in Dubai where our students use state-of-the-art TV and radio studios, newrooms and editing suites.
 We’re recognised as one of Australia’s leading research institutions, as more industries place their belief and resources into our projects to provide our research candidates and scientists with the opportunity to make amazing discoveries. Good accounting is essential to the success of any organisation - as not only does it help us manage financial positions and maintain cash flow - but it also plays a key part in helping determine where to go into the future as part of our strategic planning process.
 So forget the boring bean counter label - as a business accountant you could find yourself at the cutting edge of decision-making, whether you are helping small businesses manage growth, or in the big businesses arena managing large-scale acquisitions or divestments.Learn how businesses really work and what it takes to make a successful organisation by examining the efficiency and effectiveness of operations through to how to evaluate employee performance.
 You will also learn how to use accounting to assist you make crucial capital investment decisions for purposes including the acquisition or sale of shares, lending of money and provision of goods on credit.Make your first good business decision by studying with Murdoch
 Our courses can be tailored to fit your needs:
 You will also benefit from our small class sizes, deliberately limited to ensure you receive high quality, dedicated teaching.
 On graduating you will also gain professional recognition by CPA Australia, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (ICAA) and the Institute of Public Accountants (IPA).

Victoria University

Victoria University (VU) is one of the few Australian universities that is a multi-sector institution (higher education and TAFE). We offer short courses, apprenticeships, certificates, diplomas, degrees and postgraduate studies. Our flexible learning pathways means you can choose your own study journey, entering from various points and exiting when you’ve reached your goal.
 We have over 50,000 students enrolled at our campuses, primarily located in the western region of Melbourne (Australia) and at international sites. Our teaching, training, research, scholarship and partnerships are locally relevant and globally significant.
 Victoria University (VU) was founded in 1916 as Footscray Technical School. After successive mergers with TAFE colleges across Melbourne's western suburbs, Victoria University of Technology was established in 1990, and renamed Victoria University in 2005.
 Today, VU is one of the largest and most culturally diverse education institutions in Australia, and one of only five multi-sector universities offering vocational education (TAFE) and higher education courses.
 VU now has more than 48,000 enrolled students, which includes more than 13,400 international students studying our courses onshore or with our partner institutions offshore. More than 2700 academics, teaching and general staff join with the University’s students to make VU a university that is excellent, engaged and accessible.
 VU maintains strong links with local communities, government and industry, and is distinctive because of its transformational role in improving the lives of people and communities, especially in the western metropolitan region of Melbourne.
 The idea for a technical school based in the western suburbs of Melbourne was first proposed in 1910 – a time of great optimism when people believed in the power of technical knowledge to positively transform lives and social conditions. It took more than five years of hard work to raise funds to build the school, but in 1916 the Footscray Technical School finally opened its doors. It would become the founding institution for VU.
 Arch Hoadley was the school's principal from its founding until his death in 1947. His vision was to develop in students not only a sound technical knowledge but an appreciation of the arts, sport, outdoor and community activities. Under his leadership the school expanded rapidly and began offering trade certificate courses, diplomas in architecture, building and contracting, as well as evening classes. War and a depression saw a dip in numbers but by 1943 there were 2500 students enrolled on courses taught at the Footscray Park and Nicholson Street Campuses.
 The following decade saw a gender and cultural shift. Women first enrolled in the day diploma course in 1959, and changes to the Federal Government's immigration policy saw many more European and Asian names entered on the roll.
 In 1958 the school changed its name to the Footscray Technical College. Ten years later it changed its name again, this time to Footscray Institute of Technology (FIT), and in 1972 the secondary school component was separated from the rest of the Institute.
 By the mid 1980s the expanded curriculum included degree courses and was well beyond the technical focus of the original Footscray Technical School. In 1990, FIT merged with the Western Institute, which had been founded three years earlier to provide TAFE and higher education courses to the outlying suburbs in Melbourne's west. This led to the establishment of Victoria University of Technology (VUT) in the same year. A further amalgamation occurred in 1998, this time with the Western Melbourne Institute of TAFE. In 2005 VUT was renamed Victoria University.

Northern Melbourne Institute Of TAFE

NMIT offers specialised degrees and associate degrees designed to meet the needs of industry. Graduates of these programs are prepared for vocations and leadership roles in their study area, through a mix of practical and theoretical learning.
 NMIT has the advantage of bringing the TAFE learning environment to degree and associate-degree programs. The advantages of TAFE are:
A supportive learning environment with small classes and supervised hands-on experience
Practical involvement with industry
A combination of theory and its application in industry-scale facilities supported by academic staff and highly-skilled industry practitioners.

Students at NMIT have access to both highly-qualified academic staff and industry practitioners in state-of-the-art facilities.

These courses are for people who wish to gain industry relevant skills by combining practical training with theory in a supportive learning environment. The Associate Degree of Accounting now leads directly into the Bachelor of Accounting. The course covers subjects in the areas of law, information management, economics, statistics and management, accounting information systems, risk management and corporate governance, management accounting, company law, corporate accounting, financial management and taxation law compliance. NMIT staff come from a diverse range of academia and business and are highly qualified to deliver a quality program designed to meet student needs and industry demand. This course has been developed to meet the growing demand for business professionals with qualifications in the areas of accounting and sustainable business. It is ideal for those wishing to combine a mainstream accounting course with a sustainability and environmental management focus. The course includes traditional Accounting subjects covering General Accounting, Corporate Accounting, Management Accounting, Auditing and Taxation and Financial Management whilst at the same time providing a focus on environmental sustainability through subjects such as Introduction to Sustainability Studies, Environmental Law and Environmental Economics and Policy. Students who successfully complete an Associate Degree of Accounting are eligible to be accepted directly into the Bachelor of Accounting. The associate degree comprises the first two years of the three-year Bachelor of Agriculture and Land Management degree. Gain skills and knowledge in: agricultural technologies, soil science, water management, animals and plants, business and sustainability. NMIT’s facilities include a 360 hectare working commercial farm at Yan Yean.

University of Adelaide

The University of Adelaide is consistently ranked among the top 1% of universities in the world. Established in 1874 after a long campaign for a university led by Adelaide pioneer and Oxford don, Dr Augustus Short, who became its first Vice Chancellor. It is Australia’s third oldest university with a strong reputation for research and teaching excellence.
 The University offers high-quality education that is recognised internationally and leads to satisfying and rewarding careers.
 We've produced numerous Nobel Prize winners and more than 100 Rhodes Scholars including Australia’s first Indigenous recipient, Rebecca Richards.
 The University is a member of the Group of Eight, constituting Australia's leading research-intensive universities.
 The University of Adelaide draws strength from its founding values as it fulfils its future research and teaching aspirations. The University is an international institution that distinctively embraces the ideal of the research university, where the excitement, vitality and passion of the search for new knowledge is one in which all students participate; as an enlightened and tolerant community where able students can find support, whatever their background or circumstances; and as a place where the Kaurna people, original custodians of the land on which the campuses now rest, are acknowledged and their culture respected.
 The University of Adelaide commits to a distinctive approach that recaptures the ideal of the research university, and seeks an internally-focused staff and a tolerant, progressive student mix, which will prepare students for global citizenship in an increasingly borderless world. It will be a university true to its historical roots, yet passionately committed to its role in producing graduates designed to play leading parts in the Asian Century.