Certificate III in Painting and Decorating

Our painting and decorating course is an enjoyable ‘hands on’ program that anyone can do. Check out our ‘Academique College’ facebook page: Today the Group One students practised handling painting and decorating materials. www.facebook.com/academiquecollege They’re filling and sanding uneven surfaces. If you think that looks easy and fun then maybe P&D is the course for […]

FLEXENGLISH

Our dedicated English coordinators will help you plan a program that suits you. You can schedule your 20 hours when you want, because we run 49 hours of classes every week! One student has to work in a food factory in the mornings, so he comes in the afternoons. Quite a few students work in […]

Renovation Entrepreneur

It doesn’t matter what you did back home: Renovation Entrepreneur relates to many backgrounds. Perhaps you’ve been working in business and you want to start your own…. Maybe you are a natural entrepreneur, and you can see an opening in the renovations market… Or there’s no renovation qualification back home, so you can ‘clean up’ […]

Black and Blue

PROBLEM A new manager was recently employed at a local restaurant. He immediately started to have problems with one of the wait staff. She had been on the permanent part-time staff for a long time, and created minor issues in a variety of ways. For example, instead of wearing black pants as agreed, she would […]

TROUBLE WITH TOILETS

Scenario posted out 5/11/16 – contributed by a local business owner.   PROBLEM: A small business has a recurring problem that is not getting better. There are about 4 staff members that could check the toilets every day through their daily use, but nobody takes responsibility for regularly checking them, and dirty toilets are discovered repeatedly. (Those staff members don’t have to actually […]

Terminator

John, a local business owner has contacted CHRME with his situation below. PROBLEM: John runs a medium-sized contracting business. Like many other businesses in his sector, a change to government policy has affected his turnover and he is desperate to realign his business to avoid incurring losses. It seems the best solution is just to retrench staff until his […]