A new name and higher aspirations
After nearly 90 years of delivering correspondence courses in Australia - Thomson Education Direct has become Cengage Education. Since 1921 we have helped over 700,000 Australians gain qualifications and improve their lives.
Cengage is qualified to provide tertiary courses, compatible with the needs of many professions, including: Accounting, Business, Childcare, Humanities, and Psychology.
FEE-HELP now available!
Cengage Education has been approved by the Australian Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, to offer FEE-HELP to eligible fee-paying students for our Higher Education Courses.
Cengage now also offers a Bachelor of Business. This new degree includes the option to pursue a broad-based qualification or to major in Corporate Governance, Event and Facility Management, Logistics Management or Sport Management.
Start your Career with a Traineeship
Information for employers and employees
A Traineeship is the ideal way for you to embark on your chosen career path, or retrain for a new career.
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Returning to earning:
Live in Victoria and been caring for the kids and thinking about returning to work? Improve your work-related skills and earning potential with a Returning to Earning grant
It could offer you up to $1,000 in financial assistance towards your course fee!
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Government-Funded Training
You may be eligible for free study. Cengage facilitates training for jobseekers under a number of Australian Government programs.
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Real students, real successes
We work hard to provide our students with unsurpassed levels of education and service.
Many of our courses are nationally recognised and accredited which means they have been found to meet the stringent education quality standards set by government representatives.
Cartooning graduates making waves
Tony Lopes won Best Comic Strip Artist with his "Insanity Streak" cartoon strip now appearing in daily newspapers in Australia and the UK
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Applying for Recognition of Prior Learning?
Did you know the skills, knowledge and experience you have gained from your previous learning, work and life experiences may be taken into account and exempt you from studying some units/modules of your course; this is called Recognition of Prior Learning or RPL