NEAS' Annual General Meeting will be held on the 22nd October 2015 at:

Cliftons Meeting Rooms                                   Level 13, 60 Margaret Street; SYDNEY NSW 2000

The formalities will commence at 2:30pm and are expected to run to 4:30pm.  Post AGM drinks and canapes will be served at a venue to be confirmed.  A formal notice with an opportunity to RSVP wil be circulated in due course.  We look forward to seeing you there!

Conference season is almost upon us, with NEAS Chief Executive Mark Raven presenting on behalf of NEAS at the following events:

ACPET National Conference Melbourne (27 - 28 August) and English Australia National Conference Brisbane (23 - 25 Sept)         Why bother with quality assurance --- surely accreditation is enough?

Australian International Education Conference Adelaide (6 - 9 Oct)    QALEN (Quality Assurance in Language Education Network) - A Global Accreditation Framework

ICEF Agent Workshop Berlin (1 - 3 Nov)                                                                           Global Quality Assurance - benefits for International Education 

An almanac is a collection of facts, figures and information and with a long history, NEAS has a few of these to share.  We'll run a few facts each week, as in many ways the NEAS Almanac is also a record of our evolving ELT sector!

Fact 1:  NEAS has 25 member centres in countries other than Australia, 

Fact 2:  2015 is NEAS 25th Anniversary

Fact 3:  NEAS is the largest industry association representing quality ELT providers in Australia and the Southern Hemisphere

Fact 4:  NEAS only utilises "in-house" quality assurance assessors; eschewing outsourced arangements for a deeper and more consistent insight into quality.

With over 110 ELT centres now being recognised as meeting NEAS' Quality Endorsement requirements, a number of unique issues have required revisions to existing policy. 

NEAS has now updated a number of policies that relate to ELT providers' maintaining their Quality Endorsement status.  The policies can be found on the NEAS website here, and are specifically noted as including; "Appeals Against Decisions of the NEAS Accreditation (and/or Quality Endorsement) Committee" and "NEAS Accreditation / Quality Assurance Committee" and "Use of the NEAS Brand and Quality Marks (Multi Centre)"