We are very pleased to announce that Academia International was announced the Winner of International Provider of the year 2012 by the Australian Council for Private Education and Training (ACPET) at it’s annual Awards for Excellence held on the 31st of August.
ACPET has 1,100 member colleges in Australia ranging from small non for profit to very large VET and Higher Education Providers. We were delighted to be selected as Finalists of 2 Awards - Industry Initiative & International Provider of the year 2012 winning the later.
Although Australian Domestic Students make up our largest nationality, Academia supplements our domestic students with 60+ nationalities from around the world making this a truly global and enriching environment for students to make life-long friends from every corner of the world.
Since our inception we have had more than 10,000 students walk through our doors studying short courses such as English Language to 2 year Advanced Diploma courses.
Academia receives the "outstanding partner 2012" by CQ University reinforcing our Streamline Visa Processing Partnership.
We are very pleased to announce that Academia was announced a finalist of the Industry Initiative of the year 2012 by the Australian Council for Private Education and Training (ACPET) at it’s annual Awards for Excellence held on the 31st of August.
Co-delivering our Hospitality courses with long standing partners The Langham Hotel, The Westin Hotel and The RACV Club, our students complete their accredited training in real life 5 start establishments, 3 of the best in Melbourne.
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Students at the Langham and the Westin


The Victorian Training Awards promotes and rewards outstanding achievements and innovation in the vocational education and training sector. Academia is honoured to be selected as a FINALIST (one of three) in the Small Training Provider of the Year category (small training provider is defined for any Registered Training Organisation with less than 1500 students).
Congratulations must go to our students, staff, strategic partners and education agents for supporting Academia and of course to the other finalists.
See Victorian Training Awards - Finalists 2009 (then, click on Victorian Small Training Provider of the Year Award)
Our students recognised in the Culinary Pro-Am.
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