"The silver ring? I made it myself, at a jewellery making course! Next time we get to set gemstones in silver...can’t wait."
Wouldn’t you love to be able to say this? Or just delight in your own handiwork?
Our silver jewellery making courses give you all the tools and knowledge you need to design and produce stunning pieces you can give as gifts or wear yourself.
Under the tutelage of Sarah Whitlock, Katherine Cairns or Barbara Ryman, novices will learn about jewellery design, metalworking tools, and basic silver-working techniques like annealing and soldering, plus finishing and polishing.Extension courses offer lessons in decorative etching and advanced stone setting in silver.
Beginners will discover malleability and strength of a metal sometimes called the symbol of the moon, while apprentices in this ancient art will learn how silver can be fashioned in complex ways.
You never know the beauty you can create until you try.
What are you waiting for? Enrol online or call our Customer Service Team on 8752 7555 for more information.

If you missed out on guitar lessons as a kid – or you already play guitar but want to improve – read on!
Played by everyone from rock stars to classical musicians, the humble guitar is truly versatile. When you sign up for our Guitar Essentials course with guitar guru Dylan Hartas, you’ll learn about basic music theory, rhythm, strumming patterns and chords, and simple playing techniques. Before long you’ll be strumming recognisable tunes, like Wild Thing and Knockin' on Heaven’s Door.
Have the basics down pat but want to bring your playing to a new level? In Guitar Intermediate 1 Dylan will teach you more advanced chords, more complex rhythms, and playing techniques such as pick and finger style. Soon you will be playing popular songs by Van Morrison, Pink Floyd and John Lee Hooker. Guitar Intermediate 2 consolidates these lessons, introduces you to major-scale theory, and more. Red Hot Chilli Peppers anyone?
Don’t delay – these courses fill fast!
If you want to know more or to enrol, call our Customer Service Team on 8752 7555.

If the 9 to 5 routine is not for you and you relish being your own boss, then freelancing is an exciting and liberating alternative. But you’ll be much more successful if you know how to set up and manage a freelance business – how to nurture an existing one.
In Freelance 101, long-time freelance writer and filmmaker Monica Davidson will lead you through the thicket of legal, financial and marketing matters all freelancers should know.
If you’re a newbie, you’ll learn how to set up your business (a sparkly name is a start), set goals, manage your time, get an ABN, and draw up a business structure.
Experienced or otherwise, you’ll learn about financial and legal must-knows such as cash flow, rate-setting, ‘getting paid’, insurance, superannuation, taxes, copyright, licensing rights, ‘pitching’ and contracts. And of course, you’ll learn the all-important business of marketing your business, so as to reach potential customers/clients everywhere.
What are you waiting for?

To find out more call our Customer Service Team on 8752 7555.

So you’ve been dreaming about opening your own cafe or restaurant, and now it’s time to make it happen. But how? Where to start? What are the costly pitfalls to avoid?
Enter restauranteur-turned-consultant Ken Burgin. He will teach you everything you need to know to realise your dream:

* How to create a sure-fire concept
* What to look for/avoid when searching for a location
* Anticipating and handling competition
* Locating reliable suppliers
* How to find and keep good staff
* Knowing your target customers
* Partnership and management issues
* Set-Up costs, investment matters, the ‘bottom line’, Key Performance Indicators
* Buy an existing business or start a new one? What to consider
* Licenses, approvals, food regulations, tax matters, legal issues
* Design, equipment and makeovers
* Marketing
* Menus

The course fee includes a one-hour consultation on your individual business plan. Armed with Ken’s practical know-how and your passion, you can do it!

If you want to know more or to enrol, call our Customer Service Team on 8752 7555

If you want to learn or improve your English for business, study, work or other purposes – you’ve come to the right place!
We offer a variety of quality, enjoyable and affordable ESL courses ranging from beginner to advanced levels:
* Certificate in Spoken and Written English (II, III and IV)
* Pronunciation & Communication
* Business English
* English Conversation (Advanced)
By the end of our Certificate II course, you’ll be able to do things like leave a telephone message, write a letter, and read a simple chart. As a Certificate III graduate, you’ll be reading newspaper articles and answering simple interview questions. By Certificate IV you’ll be able to deliver a presentation, write a report, and much, much more.
Our other ESL courses focus on special-interest needs such as pronunciation problems, the language used to conduct business, and colloquial spoken English.
To find out more, check the individual courses. Our ESL team looks forward to meeting you!

Enrol online or call our Customer Service Team on 8752 7555 for more information.

So you know a little bit about a foreign language – maybe via one of our Level 1 courses – and you’re keen to continue learning. Good choice!
Continuing to learn a foreign language can enrich your life and better your chances of career and business success. Think of those important business deals, that plumb job, that foreign country you want to visit, Sydney’s multicultural communities, that gorgeous foreigner you met, the language studies you could help your child with...
Level 2 courses are offered in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Thai and Indonesian. Each course builds on what you know, extends your skills, helps you develop fluency, expands your vocabulary, and deepens your cultural knowledge.
Lesson plans are carefully designed to cover listening, speaking, reading and writing skills, communicative activities relevant to real life, and plenty of opportunities for practice.
Keep up the good work – sign up now!
Call our Customer Service Team on 8752 7555.

Do you despair when your mascara clogs up, your eyeliner smudges, your foundation looks like patchy cement and your lipstick bleeds – just when you’ve got a morning meeting or a dinner date?
Behold your saviour: make-up artist Caroline El-Akl.
Whether you want to make the most of your own features, or in fact plan to become a professional make-up artist, Caroline’s Day and Evening Make Up Application Course will teach you how to apply make-up for daytime, and how to transform the look for evening.
All the usual suspects will be there: foundation, eye shadow, blush, mascara, lipstick and eyeliner. Caroline will teach you about their little foibles and their magical, transformative abilities; how, if you handle them right, they’ll smooth out the wrinkles, cover the blemishes, and play wonderful tricks with the depth, height, colour and shape of your eyes, brows, cheeks and lips.
What could be more fun?

If your body needs some gentle exercise, your mind needs to slow down, and your niggling aches and pains won’t go away, what could be more perfect than yoga?
Practised for thousands of years, yoga offers an enjoyable, safe form of exercise and a way to cope with our stressed-out modern lives. Yoga for Beginners is an eight-week course that will introduce you to yoga postures and sequencing, yogic breathing techniques, meditation, chanting and deep relaxation.
Guided by internationally certified yoga teacher Tida Aroonwaow, you will learn how to do things like coordinate breath and movement, and use this in your daily life: work with postures in a ‘flow’ practice; do ‘Sun Salute’ sequences and variations; prepare your mind to meditate; and learn ways to practise yoga at home.
It won’t be long before you’ll be feeling more flexible, energetic, focused, and serene.
Don’t you owe it to yourself?

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Swimming is a big part of life in Australia, with more beaches and swimming pools here than you can count.
If you’ve never taken the plunge, or those early lessons scared you half out of the water, or you swim confidently but need to improve your techniques – read on!
Our Beginner’s Swim Lessons are all about water confidence and basic swimming moves (freestyle and backstroke). Similarly, when you sign up for our Learn to Swim classes, you’ll learn to float, kick with a board, how to breathe correctly, and about deep-water safety.
Already mastered the basic swimming strokes? Our Intermediate Swim Lessons will bring you to the next level. You’ll learn efficient breathing techniques and strong freestyle strokes for distances of 25 metres.
Swim pretty well but can’t understand why you’re stuck in the slow lanes? Have to stop for breath? Try Stroke Correction lessons. Our instructors will analyse your stroke, advise you how to correct it, and work on your endurance.
Take the plunge today!
Enrol online or call our Customer Service Team on 8752 7555 for more information.

When it comes to age, gender and sporting ability, golf doesn’t discriminate. It just wants you to fall in love with the game (get a little exercise, make new friends....). Maybe that’s why, in countries like the US, golf is the fastest growing sport around.
So why not join the global fan club, and learn how to play?
Our Beginner’s Golf course, led by professional golfer Kylie Moulds, is the perfect place to start. Don’t worry if you don’t know the first rule of the game, don’t know a golf ‘chip’ from a bar of soap, or think you’ll play with two left feet: Kylie will explain, demonstrate and give you plenty of practice!
You’ll learn about correct grip, stance and set up, how to swing a golf club with the proper technique, how to chip and putt, which club to use when, and what the basic rules of the game are.
So tee up and swing into action!
Enrol online or call our Customer Service Team on 8752 7555 for more information.