A new name and higher aspirations
After nearly 90 years of delivering correspondence courses in Australia - Thomson Education Direct has become Cengage Education, Australia's leading distance education provider.
Since 1921 we have helped over 700,000 Australians gain qualifications and improve their lives. Our long history and experience make us highly qualified to provide tertiary courses that are compatible with the needs of particular professions, including: Accounting, Business, Childcare, Humanities, and Psychology.
With a new name comes a new ambition. Not only will we continue to provide excellent vocational courses – the number currently stands at over 200 - we have also gained government approval to deliver our first higher education degree - the Bachelor of Accounting.
The Bachelor of Accounting is complemented by our other accounting courses as well. If you’ve already completed a Diploma of Accounting, it may count towards a degree through the Recognition of Prior Learning system (as does any other previous study or experience), meaning you have less work to do!
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2008 Course Guide
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We’ve put this catalogue together with you in mind – it’s a reader-friendly guide to all the courses we have available.
You will find detailed course information and key areas of learning. We have also included the estimated hours of study for each course. These estimates allow you to plan your study by showing you a variety of monthly options.
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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.
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