English Courses at Impact English College
Impact English College teaches English on two city campuses, one in Melbourne and one in Brisbane, and runs an English Only rule everywhere in the building at all times. Classes are capped at eighteen students, every course is twenty hours a week, and you are allowed to move between the two cities on the same enrolment.
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Impact English College is an Australian English school with campuses in Melbourne and Brisbane, and it is best known for one rule: English Only, everywhere in the school, all the time, inside the classrooms and outside them. It is a simple rule and it works, because it turns the whole building into practice. Every coffee break, every chat in the corridor and every lunch with a classmate adds to your hours. Classes hold a maximum of eighteen students and run twenty hours a week, in a morning or an afternoon timetable, so the rest of the day is yours to work, explore or sleep. The school is accredited by NEAS, is a member of English Australia and of IALC, and is an official Cambridge exam centre, so you sit the exam in the same building you studied in. It has won the Victorian International Education Awards four times. And because both campuses belong to the same school, a campus transfer is a form rather than a new application: start in Brisbane for the sun and finish in Australia’s culture capital, on one booking.
Ten programmes: General English across six levels, Extreme English at Foundation and Excel, Cambridge B2 First and C1 Advanced, IELTS and academic English, Business English, Barista and Café English with a nationally accredited coffee course, the Demi Pair programme, and the Career Launch paid hospitality placement.
Every course is twenty hours a week, Monday to Friday, on either the morning timetable from 8:30 to 12:55 or the afternoon one from 1:05 to 5:30. Classes never hold more than eighteen students. You also get the Impactivities, which are free extra classes and clubs that run before or after your timetable, from pronunciation and vocabulary to a job club and a singing class.
- Maximum 18 per class
- Six levels, Elementary to Advanced
- 2 campuses: Melbourne and Brisbane
- NEAS accredited, English Australia and IALC member
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Why do students choose Impact English College in 2026?
Two campuses, one rule that runs the whole school, and a set of numbers Impact publishes openly. Here is what makes the difference once you are in the building.
English Only is a condition of enrolment at both Impact campuses in Australia, and it applies everywhere in the college at all times: in the classrooms, in the lounge, in the lift and in the café. It is the most valuable thing on this page, because it turns every hour you spend at school into practice. Your twenty hours of class quickly become far more than twenty hours of English, without costing you anything extra. Students arrive from more than thirty-five countries and the nationality mix in each class is managed on purpose, so the people around you are keen to speak English too and you always have someone to practise with. Most students tell us they can feel the difference by the second month.
Impact teaches in Melbourne and in Brisbane, and a transfer between them is an internal form rather than a new application, a new school and a new set of documents. That is a real option and students use it: a term in Brisbane for the subtropical winter and the beaches an hour away, then a term in Melbourne for the coffee, the live music and the job market, with your course, your level and your visa carrying straight across. It also keeps your options open. You can pick your second city once you have lived in the first one and know what you want from the rest of your stay.
Impact prints the number in its own price list: a maximum of eighteen students in General English, Business English, IELTS and EAP, and in the Extreme English classes. It is one of the most valuable figures on any school website, because class size decides how many minutes a week you personally spend speaking. Eighteen keeps the room small enough for your teacher to know your name, your level and exactly what you are working on, and small enough that you get your turn in every activity.
Extreme English is the course that sets Impact apart from a standard general course. It is a closed class of ten weeks per level, so the group starts and finishes together, and the style is deliberately academic: sustained reading and writing, regular testing, real homework. Foundation takes you from Pre-Intermediate, Excel from Intermediate, and finishing Excel puts you in range of the Cambridge, IELTS and Business classes. If you want your level to move quickly and visibly, this is the course that does it.
Impact is an official Cambridge exam centre, which means B2 First and C1 Advanced students sit the exam in the building they prepared in, with the staff they know, on a morning that feels like any other day at school. The preparation courses run ten to twelve weeks against the official exam dates. A Cambridge certificate never expires, so the work you put in keeps its value for the rest of your career.
Impact is unusually practical about work. The Barista and Café English course combines classroom English with a nationally accredited coffee course and work experience in the school’s own café, Impresso, and it ends with job applications and interview practice. The Career Launch programme places you in a paid hospitality job for six months at the Australian minimum wage once you reach Upper Intermediate. The Demi Pair programme puts you with a family for full board and a private room in exchange for fifteen hours a week. There is also a free Job Club every week, on resumes, interviews and what you are owed at work in Australia.
Impact English College has been teaching English in Australia since 2002 and is accredited by NEAS, the Australian quality assurance body for English language teaching, and is a member of English Australia and of IALC, the International Association of Language Centres. It is an official Cambridge exam centre. It has won the Victorian International Education Awards for excellence in English language training in 2013, 2014 and 2018, took the Premier’s Award for International Education Provider of the Year in 2015, and won again in 2016 for international student employability. It has been shortlisted four times for the StudyTravel Star Award for English school in the southern hemisphere.
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Melbourne or Brisbane, and you do not have to choose today
The two campuses teach the same courses, to the same timetable, at the same class size, with the same rule about speaking English. So the city is a genuinely free choice, and you can change your mind about it once you are there.
What changes between them is the weather, the cost of living and the character of the city. Brisbane is subtropical and warm nearly all year, easy to get around, kind to a student budget, and the one to pick if beaches, river ferries and weekends outdoors are part of why you are going. Melbourne is Australia’s culture capital, with the biggest student job market in the country, the coffee scene the Barista course grew out of, and live music, festivals and galleries all year round. We will talk you through both before you book, and either way you keep the option to switch.
What English courses does Impact English College offer?
Ten programmes across both campuses. Every course runs twenty hours a week, Monday to Friday, on a morning or afternoon timetable, and every class is capped at eighteen students. The minimum age is eighteen.
The course most students book and the one everything else is built on. Six levels from Elementary to Advanced, covering grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and the four skills, with a strong bias towards actually talking: the week is full of role plays, discussion and practical situations rather than silent grammar drills. A level takes about ten weeks and you move up when you are ready rather than when the calendar says so. Choose the morning or the afternoon timetable and keep the other half of the day for work or for the city.
An intensive General English class for students who want to be pushed harder than a standard course pushes. The language is still practical and general, but the style is academic: heavy reading and writing, regular testing, homework that takes real time. It runs as a closed class, which means everybody starts and finishes together over ten weeks, so the group gets tight and nobody drifts in halfway through your term. Finish it and you are ready for Excel.
The second half of the intensive track, and the course that opens the specialist classes. Same closed class of ten weeks and the same academic pressure, one level higher. By the end you should have the reading, writing and exam habits to go straight into Cambridge B2 First, into IELTS and academic English, or into Business English, which is exactly what most Excel students do next. If your goal is university in Australia, this is the fastest honest route to the entry level.
Preparation for the Cambridge B2 First exam, over ten to twelve weeks depending on the exam date. It covers all four skills plus Use of English, which is the part that sharpens your grammar and vocabulary more than anything else on the timetable. A B2 First certificate says you can live and work independently in English, it is recognised by employers and universities around the world, and unlike a test score it never expires. You sit it at the Impact exam centre, in your own building.
The next certificate up, and a serious one. C1 Advanced is the level Australian and British universities accept for direct entry and the level employers read as genuinely fluent. The course runs ten to twelve weeks against the official exam sessions and works on flexibility and precision rather than on new grammar: saying exactly what you mean, in the register the situation calls for. Sat at the Impact exam centre, and it does not expire either.
IELTS preparation and academic English in one course, which is the right combination if the test is a means to an end. You work on the four IELTS papers and the exam technique that lifts a score, and at the same time on the skills a degree actually needs: listening to a lecture and taking notes, essay structure, reading quickly for the argument, referencing and citation. Two levels, Upper Intermediate and Advanced. It is also the course that feeds Impact’s pathway agreements, so finishing it well can get you into a college or university place without sitting IELTS at all.
English for working life rather than for an exam, aimed at people who already have a career or are about to start one. You cover meetings, negotiation, presentations, business writing, marketing and the vocabulary that goes with them, with practice for the Cambridge Business English Certificate and for TOEIC built into the course, and a team project that ends in a presentation to the class. A good fit after Extreme English: Excel, and a good fit for anybody who wants to sound confident and precise in a professional room.
Five weeks that end with a nationally accredited barista qualification and the English to use it. You learn the espresso machine, the grinder, milk texturing, coffee art, hygiene and the language of taking orders and describing food, with the practical coffee training run at an accredited coffee academy and supervised work experience in Impact’s own café, Impresso. The last week is job applications, CV writing, interview role plays and what fair pay and tax look like in Australia. In a country where café work is the standard student job, this is the most directly useful five weeks on the list.
Study English and live with an Australian family, helping with the children for up to fifteen hours a week in exchange for a private room and three meals a day, seven days a week. It is the most affordable way on this page to spend a long time in Australia, and the most immersive: you speak English at breakfast, at dinner and at school, which is very nearly the whole day. It rewards planning, so start early. You apply twelve weeks before you arrive with a CV, an introduction letter, photographs and a police check, you meet the family on a video call first, and you complete a Blue Card in Queensland or a Working with Children Check in Victoria after you land.
A paid job in Australian hospitality for six months, arranged for you after you finish your English at Impact. You study at least twelve weeks and reach Upper Intermediate, Impact matches you with an employer on your level, your experience and where you want to be, and you work around thirty hours a week at the Australian minimum wage. Placements are in food and beverage, kitchen, housekeeping or front office. It is for the student who wants an Australian employer on their resume and six months of English at working speed, which is a different thing from English in a classroom.
General English is where most students start, Extreme English is what they move to when they want the level to actually shift, and the Barista, Demi Pair and Career Launch programmes are what bring us students who want the year to pay for part of itself
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What should you know before enrolling at Impact English College?
The things worth settling before you book rather than after, taken from Impact’s own brochure, price list and course pages, and from what students ask us every week.
Costs, Dates, Application Process and other Considerations
Application Process - Send us the contact form and an advisor comes back with the exact order of operations for your nationality and your dates. You do a level check test online before you travel, so you walk into the right class on your first morning and start learning straight away. Impact issues the offer letter and the confirmation of enrolment your visa application needs, and we prepare and submit that application with you, translations included, at no extra cost. If you are applying for the Demi Pair programme, start twelve weeks ahead: the family matching, the police check and the video call each take their own time, and doing them early makes the whole thing easy.
Dates of the Program - It depends on the course, and the difference matters when you are booking flights. General English, Business English and IELTS and EAP start any Monday of the year. Extreme English, both Cambridge courses and Barista and Café English are closed classes with fixed start dates published campus by campus, roughly every five weeks for Barista and every ten for the rest, and the Cambridge dates are tied to the official exam sessions. Tell us the month you have in mind and we will send the real calendar for that campus rather than a general answer.
Length of the Program - Four weeks is the minimum for General English, five for Business English and for IELTS and EAP. The closed classes have a fixed length: ten weeks per level for Extreme English, ten to twelve for the Cambridge courses, five for Barista and Café English. Most students on a student visa book somewhere between twenty-four and sixty weeks, usually stacking courses, and the standard route is General English first, then Extreme English, then an exam or Business class. Career Launch adds six months of paid work after the study.
Costs - Impact publishes a full price list and charges the same weekly tuition for every course on this page, at both campuses, which is rarer than it sounds and makes choosing simple: the Cambridge course costs the same per week as General English, so you pick the course you actually want. The list also prices materials, the application fee, health cover, homestay, the student residences and the airport pickup, so you can see the whole cost of your year in one place. The rates are set each year and promotions come and go, so use the form at the bottom of this page and the current quote arrives in writing, with everything itemised, before you commit to anything. Our cost of studying abroad calculator will give you a first estimate if you want a number before you talk to anybody.
Health Insurance - Overseas Student Health Cover is compulsory for student visa holders in Australia and has to cover the full length of the visa, not just the course. Impact arranges it with your enrolment so the dates line up from day one, which is the easiest way to do it. On a visitor visa or a working holiday visa you are not required to hold OSHC, and private cover is still worth budgeting for, so you can see a doctor quickly and affordably wherever you are.
Minimum Age - Eighteen, for every course at both campuses, which makes Impact an adult school in the real sense: the person next to you is as likely to be a thirty-year-old chef as a nineteen-year-old on a gap year. That mix is one of the things students enjoy most about it. If you are travelling with someone under eighteen, tell us and we will point you to the schools on our site built for that age group.
Minimum English Level - None at all for General English, which starts at Elementary and welcomes complete beginners. Every other course has an entry level, confirmed by the level check test: Pre-Intermediate for Extreme English Foundation and for the Demi Pair programme, Intermediate for Excel and for Barista and Café English, Upper Intermediate for Business English, IELTS and EAP and Cambridge B2 First, and Advanced for C1 Advanced. If you are close, a few weeks of General English first is the usual route, and we will recommend it so you start your specialist course at full strength.
Visa Regulations - It depends on how long you study. A short course can often be done on a visitor visa or an eTA, while full-time study of any real length needs a student visa, subclass 500, which requires at least twenty hours of class a week. Every Impact course is twenty hours a week, so all of them qualify. Australia is one of our specialities: we prepare and submit the application for you and our approval rate is high because the file goes in complete the first time. Any translations it needs are done by the ViveCampus translation team at no extra cost.
Working While You Study: - An Australian student visa normally allows paid work, up to a fortnightly cap while your course is running and without a limit during scheduled breaks, and that is a large part of why students choose Australia over the alternatives. The cap changes from time to time, so we confirm the current figure for your dates rather than quote one here. Impact leans into it: a weekly Job Club on resumes, interviews, workplace rights and tax, the Barista course that ends with a nationally accredited qualification, and the Career Launch programme, which places you in a paid hospitality job for six months once your English is at the level.
Accommodation - Three options, and they suit genuinely different people. A homestay puts you with an Australian family with two meals on weekdays and three at the weekend, and it is what we recommend for a first stay and for anybody whose speaking is the weak part, because it is several more hours of English a day that you do not pay extra for. The minimum booking is four weeks and the average trip to the campus is about forty minutes. A student residence gives you your own room, a kitchen and a building full of other students, in Melbourne or in Brisbane, and it is where most of the social life ends up. The Demi Pair programme is the third route: a private room and three meals a day, seven days a week, in exchange for helping a family with the children. Write to us and we will put a weekly number against each one.
Extra Curricular Activities - The Impactivities are free extra classes and clubs that run either side of your timetable, and they are the reason the twenty hours a week stretches further than it looks. Conversation Club, Pronunciation Club, Vocabulary Club, Listening Extra using TED talks, Exam Skills, Study Help with a teacher one to one, and Singlish, which is a singing class and is better for your rhythm and stress than it has any right to be. The Explorer Club takes you around Melbourne or Brisbane to practise English somewhere that is not a classroom. On top of that there are parties and events through the year, from the Australian Open in January to an international food day, Halloween and Christmas.
Airport Pickup - Available at both ends and priced on the published list: Melbourne Tullamarine and Avalon, Brisbane, and the Gold Coast if you are flying into Coolangatta. You are met at the airport and taken to your accommodation, at any hour of the day or night, which is the easiest possible start to the trip. Book it with the course so it is arranged and waiting for you on the day.
First day of classes - You will have done the level check test online before flying, so the first morning is orientation rather than testing: enrolment details, how the school works, your responsibilities as a student visa holder, a tour of the building, and how to log into ICON, which is the online system that carries your class materials and homework. Homestay students get their own orientation session. Classes start the same day. After that, student and teacher interviews happen every five weeks and a written progress report every ten, so you always know how you are progressing and what to work on next.
Keep in mind that the biggest expense is usually not the course itself, but the living costs. So, before choosing the cheapest school, consider all factors carefully
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Impact campuses
Melbourne or Brisbane is the one decision on this page that changes your daily life rather than your English, and it comes down to weather, cost and the size of city you want to wake up in. A ViveCampus advisor will talk you through both, and because a campus transfer is an internal form at Impact, it is a decision you are allowed to revisit once you are there.
- Impact Melbourne
Melbourne is Australia’s culture capital and has spent years near the top of the world’s most liveable city lists, which it earns with coffee, live music, laneway restaurants and an arts calendar that never really stops. The campus sits on Little Collins Street in the middle of the city, one block from Southern Cross Station with trams passing the door, so the whole city and the airport are easy from the front step. It has the biggest student job market in the country, it is the home of the café culture the Barista course came out of, and it is the base for weekends on the Great Ocean Road or the Puffing Billy railway in the Dandenongs. Four real seasons, and a winter the city’s cafes, galleries and live music were made for.
Location: Level 5, 595 Little Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
- Impact Brisbane
Brisbane is the capital of Queensland, the Sunshine State, and it is warm, green and subtropical nearly all year, which is why students who came for the Australian outdoors end up here. The campus is on Eagle Street in the city’s Golden Triangle, minutes from the Queen Street Mall, Central Station and the river ferries at Eagle Street Pier. The city is smaller, cheaper to live in and easier to get around than Melbourne, and it is the better base for beaches: Moreton Island, Noosa and the Gold Coast are all day trips, as are Australia Zoo and the rainforest at Mount Tamborine. Weekends here are outdoors by default.
Location: Level 1, 110 Eagle Street, Brisbane QLD 4000, Australia
Impact students come from more than 35 countries, and the nationality mix in each class is managed rather than left to chance.
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What do students say about studying at Impact?
Two Impact students, in their own words. Ignacia comes from Chile and Seo-Yeon from South Korea, and between them the two reviews cover most of what people ask us about: the teachers, the friends, the IELTS score and the coffee.
Hi! I’m Ignacia from Chile. I really loved my experience at Impact English College in Melbourne. The school is in a great location, and I really enjoyed everything about it. My English improved a lot, but the best part was also meeting people and making friends from all over the world. I would definitely recommend the school to anyone thinking about studying in Melbourne. And I also want to thank ViveCampus for helping me with my enrollment and taking care of my visa process. They made everything so much easier.
I’ve had such a great time at Impact English College. I’m really going to miss my daily coffee at school! I studied here for six months and managed to get a 7.0 in IELTS, which was the score I needed to continue my studies in Australia. The teachers are amazing. They always encouraged me and motivated me every day. I also loved the activities at school and getting to know other students. I’m really happy I chose Impact.
Student testimonials from Impact English College share students’ experiences at the language school.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What our advisors are asked most often before booking a course at Impact: which campus, how the English Only rule really works, whether you can work, how long it takes to move up a level, and what happens after the English course finishes.
Melbourne or Brisbane: which campus should I choose?
Start with the lifestyle you want, because both campuses give you the same school. Brisbane is subtropical and mild all year, easy to get around and kind to a student budget, and it is the one to choose if beaches, river ferries and weekends outdoors are part of the plan. Melbourne gives you the bigger city, the biggest student job market in the country, four proper seasons and the best arts, coffee and live music calendar in Australia. After that, look at the work you want: hospitality jobs are plentiful in both cities, and Melbourne’s café industry is the deepest in the country, which is a real advantage if you are doing the Barista course. The courses, the timetable, the class size and the teachers’ qualifications are identical at both, so you are choosing a city rather than a school. And you can have both: book one campus and transfer partway through, which is an internal form rather than a new application.
Is the English Only rule actually enforced?
Yes, and that is exactly what makes it work. It applies everywhere in the college and at all times, not just in class, so the lounge, the café, the corridors and the lift are all part of it, and the staff keep it alive. Students agree to it when they enrol, so everybody is in it together from the first day. Most students tell us it feels like a challenge for the first fortnight and like the normal way the building works by the second month, and that is usually the point at which they notice how much more fluent they have become. Impact also manages the nationality mix in each class, with students from more than thirty-five countries, so English is the natural language to use in the room and you always have someone to practise with.
How long does it take to move up a level?
About ten weeks per level in General English, which is the usual pace anywhere and depends as much on you as on the school. Your progress is tracked properly rather than left to a feeling: student and teacher interviews every five weeks and a written progress report every ten, so you always know where you stand and what to work on next. If you want to move faster, Extreme English is the answer, because it is a closed class of ten weeks with a much heavier reading, writing and homework load, and it is the course students choose when they want a visible jump in level.
Can I work while I study at Impact?
On a student visa, yes. Australia allows student visa holders to work up to a fortnightly limit while the course is in session and without a cap during scheduled course breaks. The figure has been changed by the government more than once in recent years, so we confirm the current one for your start date rather than print a number that may be out of date by the time you read this. Impact is set up for it: there is a free Job Club every week covering resumes, interviews, workplace rights and tax, the Barista and Café English course ends with a nationally accredited barista qualification and work experience in the school’s own café, and the Career Launch programme places you in a paid hospitality role for six months once you reach Upper Intermediate.
What is Extreme English and who is it for?
It is Impact’s intensive track, in two ten week stages, Foundation from Pre-Intermediate and Excel from Intermediate. The language is still General English and so it stays useful for ordinary life, but the class runs like an academic course: sustained reading and writing, regular tests, homework that actually takes an evening. It is a closed class, so the same group starts and finishes together and you build real momentum with the same people around you. It is for the student who wants their level to move quickly, and for anybody heading towards Cambridge, IELTS or a Business English class, because finishing Excel is what makes those courses comfortable to walk into.
Can I really transfer between the two campuses?
Yes, and students do. Both campuses belong to the same school and teach the same courses, so a transfer is handled internally rather than as a new enrolment at a new provider, and your course, your level and your student visa carry across. Conditions apply, mostly around timing and your course type, since a closed class like Extreme English or a Cambridge course has to be finished where it started. The practical way to use it is to split a long booking: one term in Brisbane, one in Melbourne. Tell us if that is your plan and we will build the enrolment so it works from the start.
Do I need a certain level of English to start?
Not for General English, which begins at Elementary and welcomes complete beginners. Every other course has an entry level: Pre-Intermediate for Extreme English Foundation and for the Demi Pair programme, Intermediate for Extreme English Excel and for Barista and Café English, Upper Intermediate for Business English, for IELTS and EAP and for Cambridge B2 First, and Advanced for Cambridge C1 Advanced. You do a level check test online before you travel, so your place is confirmed against a real result and you walk into the right class on the first morning. If you are close to the entry level, a few weeks of General English first is the usual route, and we will recommend it so you start your specialist course at full strength.
What does the Barista and Café English course actually include?
Five weeks, and it is a genuine qualification rather than a themed English class. You get twenty hours a week of classroom English built around hospitality, a practical coffee course run at a nationally accredited coffee academy, supervised practice sessions, and work experience in Impresso, the café Impact runs inside the school. The syllabus goes from the espresso machine, the grinder, dosing and tamping and milk texturing through to menus, taking orders, describing food, workplace hygiene and coffee art. The final week is finding a job: applications, CV writing, interview role plays, and what fair pay and tax look like in Australia. Entry is Intermediate and up.
How does the Demi Pair programme work?
You live with an Australian family in a private room with three meals a day, seven days a week, and help with the children and light housework for up to fifteen hours a week, Monday to Friday, while you study at Impact. It is the cheapest long stay on this page and the most immersive, because you are speaking English from breakfast to bedtime. It needs planning: the application goes in twelve weeks before you start, with a CV in English, an introduction letter, photographs and a police check from your home country, and you meet the family on a video call before anything is confirmed. After you arrive you complete a Blue Card in Queensland or a Working with Children Check in Victoria, and Impact’s accommodation officer walks you through it. Minimum level is Pre-Intermediate.
What is the Career Launch Program and who is it for?
It is a paid six month hospitality placement that follows your English course. You study at Impact for at least twelve weeks and finish at Upper Intermediate, the school matches you with an employer based on your level, your experience and where you want to work, and you work around thirty hours a week at the Australian minimum wage. Roles are in food and beverage, kitchen, housekeeping or front office, and can be entry level or rotational depending on what you bring. Some hospitality experience helps. You cover your own transport and accommodation. It is for the student who wants an Australian employer on their resume and six months of English at working speed.
Is Impact an accredited school?
Yes, on every count Australia has. It holds CRICOS provider code 02995B, which is what allows it to teach international students on a student visa at all and is checked by the federal regulator. It is accredited by NEAS, the Australian quality assurance body for English language teaching, and it is a member of English Australia, the national association, and of IALC, the International Association of Language Centres. It is also an official Cambridge exam centre. On top of that it has won the Victorian International Education Awards four times and the Premier’s Award for International Education Provider of the Year in 2015.
What happens after I finish my English course?
That depends on why you came. If you want an Australian qualification, Impact has pathway agreements with colleges and universities, which means finishing the required course at the required level gets you a place without sitting IELTS separately, and the academic team builds the study plan with you. If you want a certificate that travels, the Cambridge B2 First and C1 Advanced qualifications do not expire and are recognised worldwide. If you want to work, Career Launch is the direct route and the Barista qualification is the fast one. And if you simply want more English, you stack another course: most long stay students go General English, then Extreme English, then an exam or Business class.
What accommodation can I get, and what does it involve?
Three routes. Homestay puts you with an Australian family, two meals on weekdays and three at the weekend, minimum four weeks, and about forty minutes from campus on average, which is the option we recommend for a first stay because it adds hours of English a day at no extra cost. A student residence gives you your own room, shared kitchens and a building full of students, available in both Melbourne and Brisbane, and it is where the social life tends to be. Demi Pair is the third: a private room and full board in exchange for up to fifteen hours a week with a family’s children. There is a placement fee for homestay and residence bookings and the weekly rates differ, so ask us for the current figures against your dates.
How much money should I bring to get started?
Plan this early and the rest of your year is straightforward. Impact’s own brochure suggests having around AUD 3,000 available on arrival for a rental bond, furniture and your first weeks, and budgets in the region of AUD 29,710 a year for living costs on top of tuition: accommodation, food, transport, books, clothes, health and entertainment. Those are guides, and they move with the exchange rate and with the city, since Brisbane is noticeably cheaper to live in than Melbourne. Work is a genuine help on a student visa, and the comfortable way to plan it is as extra room in your budget once you are settled in. Ask us and we will build the whole budget with you before you book, so you arrive knowing your numbers.
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