During these challenging times within the market some colleges, such as ABILITY English, have focussed on designing courses that meet the needs of students. These courses such as Pronunciation and Fluency, awarding winning General English Plus and the International Business course with the crucial intercultural communication components to help students gain work in the international business arena have proved to buck the trend of dropping numbers.

The Australian Government is continuing to introduce a variety of policies to protect international students and to ensure quality education and that Australia’s international reputation of excellence continues.

Read more on the full report and Ability’s contribution

We wish to congratulate all those students in Sydney and Melbourne who have recently sat for their Cambridge exams in FCE and CAE gaining fantastic results:

• Sydney CAE – 100% pass rate
• Sydney FCE – 84% pass rate
• Melbourne CAE – 100% pass rate
• Melbourne FCE – 100% pass rate

Melissa, one of our CAE teachers, explained the reasons how the team of Cambridge teachers help achieve such great results:

“We strive to maintain focussed and motivated students throughout the course, working towards the goal of success in the exam. We design our classes to be dynamic and interactive. We identify our student’s areas of strengths and weaknesses very early in the course to develop each of five skill areas of speaking, listening, reading, writing and use of grammar appropriately and providing a good balance of both exam practise and study of new material.”

At ABILITY we believe a great TEACHER means a GREAT SCORE

Our next Cambridge exam preparations begin 10 September. Find out more about our Cambridge course.

What is an MEC Grant?

The MEC grant is a program offered by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science to promote the learning of other languages ​​as well as the international mobility of students. The length of language courses will be 3 to 6 weeks and take place in many countries worldwide.

Studying English language at ABILITY English

Many MEC scholarship students have come to ABILITY English in Sydney and Melbourne. They choose ABILITY because of:

• Well designed courses to see quick results
• Highly trained and dedicated teachers
• Central location in Sydney and Melbourne
• Great nationality mix with fellow students from more than 41 countries
• Fun social activities to make lots of friends

“I really enjoyed my time at ABILITY English. In 5 weeks my English really improved in the Pronunciation & Fluency course. People could understand my English!!!” Camilo José Cela

“Our teachers are great, it has been useful for me day to day as I can explain myself better” Karen Vilena

Information on the MEC scholarship

The amount of the scholarship is variable depending on the destination, up to a maximum of 2600 Euros, and includes tuition, course and accommodation chosen. Students do need to be aware that the grant does not include transportation, which must be paid by the grantee.

The requirements are different depending on the language of the chosen course. Students must be Spanish citizens

For more information, please contact Sylvain Blanchot at sylvain_blanchot@megt.com.au

In 2011 ABILITY English won the English Australia ETS TOEFL Award for Innovation in ELICOS for our General English Plus course.

What is this award?

It is an award recognising innovative contributions of excellence to the ELICOS sector.

Why did we win?

General English Plus won this award because it

• demonstrated strategic approach to addressing a specific, clearly defined issue meeting identified student need;
• an institutional approach to and support of innovation; and
• demonstrated impact on students with clear evidence of use of a feedback loop.

What is the General English Plus innovation exactly?

We have designed two types of General English courses to ensure we meet the needs of ALL student learning styles. Our General English Plus courses have a more serious and academic teaching style. Students are pushed forward, preparing them for greater study and work goals. This means that every student can succeed with the right kind of learning they need.

We are proud to announce that we are renaming Ability Education as ABILITY English – as from 1 October 2011.

Why the renaming?

ABILITY English is evolving even further as an English language industry specialist. By modifying the name we are clearly showing students and their advisers that teaching English is at the centre of all our operations. At ABILITY we strive to be the experts in high quality English language teaching and specialise in providing innovative solutions to student problems.What does the new logo symbolise?

We are also changing our logo as shown above to more closely link ABILITY English with the branding of MEGT (Australia), our parent company. Because ABILITY English is part of MEGT, a large Australian-owned provider of education, training and employment, we are able to offer our English language students access to a wide variety of education and employment opportunities, and we want our logo to reflect this.

Our goal

MEGT Education has a primary goal to have all services operating under one integrated business structure. We are doing this so that MEGT Education is simple and easy to work with. The new identity of ABILITY English is part of this “integration” strategy. Our visual representation in all our marketing activities will reflect that we are part of MEGT a well-established and respected large enterprise