NEAS is delighted to share that Denver Craig has been appointed NEAS Advisory Council Convenor by the NEAS Board.

With 20 years' experience in ELICOS, Denver is the Director of Studies and Principal Administrator for Think: CLASS (The Centre for Learning and Academic Skills Support) – a division of the Think: Education Group, (part of Laureate International Universities). 

In addition, Denver has been a NEAS Quality Assessor (NQA), a member of the TEQSA (Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency) Register of Experts, an Inspector for IALC (The International Association of Language Centres) and a member of the AALL (Association for Academic Language and Learning). 

As Mark's time as CEO comes to an end, so does his authorship of NEAS News. 

Since NEAS News was launched in October 2013, Mark has authored more than 150 News editions with over 750 articles. 

NEAS News has launched NEAS' Stakeholder Driven Quality Assurance model, featured more than 250 ELT and AMEP centres, launched half a dozen Premium Products and founded the global Quality Assurance collective (QALEN).

In many ways, NEAS News has become the voice of the ELT sector in Australia, by presenting a positive and professional picture of our colourful industry.  We'd like to thank Mark Raven for his eloquent and insightful contributions to the editorial.

Over the last 10 months, the Australian Academy of Commerce Language Centre has been working in conjunction with Kogarah Library to present free monthly IELTS workshops. 

The workshops are focused on one component of the IELTS test with the message being to find out what you can learn when you are preparing for your IELTS Test. Students are in mixed level groups with one teacher for every ten students with the plan to share the workshop format with other NEAS colleges in the future.

As a result of these efforts, NEAS is thrilled to share that the AAC Language Centre’s programme has won the IELTS Morgan Terry Award.