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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 […]

Macquarie continues to deliver one of the most respected English Language programs offered in Sydney, particularly focusing on combining English language with job training, career specific skills and computer training. English classes will continue to run out of its Carlingford, Ryde, Chatswood, Hawkesbury and Mount Druitt centers after we farewelled our colleagues at the Adult Migrant English Program in Blacktown last Friday. Read the full article by Harrison Vesey. Picture: Isabella Lettini. Published in blacktownsun.com.au (July 04, 2017).

Among hundreds of submissions from other writing students at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Katherine Pinczuk’s short story was selected to be part of an anthology called Strange Objects Covered With Fur. The 2015 publication featured UTS’s most talented new writers.

We’re heading into another Aussie winter and you’re planning your escape to warmer climates. Overseas holiday — here we come!

“When we came to Australia, we had no friends, we couldn’t have any communication with society because we didn’t know English, and so this college took us from our cave and brought us out into society.”

Kudawashe Chakanyuka started her Certificate III in Individual Support six months after fleeing Zimbabwe. Her life had been in imminent danger after she dared to host a meeting for the Movement for Democratic Change, an opposition party to authoritarian leader Robert Mugabe.

Among the guest speakers at Bowman Hall on International Women’s Day last week was our very own Aleksandra Malbasa. She told a crowded room about coming to Macquarie Community College as a refugee for English language classes.