Delivering high-quality education

Macleay College’s success comes from the quality of education it provides. The college’s philosophy is based on small classes and individual attention. Macleay has better staff/student ratios, better-qualified lecturers, better computer and equipment ratios, and smaller classes than any educational institution in its field.

Lecturers at Macleay College have tertiary qualifications and teach only in their own fields. A substantial number of our educators also maintain senior level executive positions in their relevant industry. Macleay's policy is that current professional practice is essential for tertiary educators to provide relevant, up-to-date skills and good contacts within industry.

Macleay’s combines education with industry wherever possible. In practical classes, students work with the latest systems in use in industry. Regular classes are supplemented by guest lectures by well-known industry identities and by industry visits and excursions.

Our education philosophy

Macleay College is guided by five principles for delivering its education courses:

1. Ensuring students become highly competent in the skills needed by the professions for which they are being prepared.

2. Developing the communications skills of its students, in writing, verbally, visually and in other ways of communicating.

3. Promoting free intellectual enquiry among its students and staff, and develop among its students the capacity to become creative thinkers with an ability to look at problems from a number of different perspectives; to analyse; to gather evidence; to synthesise; and to be flexible in their thought.

4. Developing among its students the capacity for 'lifelong learning' to enable them to keep abreast of the changing world in which they will practice.

5. Ensuring the level of graduate achievement is equivalent to accepted professional practice in the occupations in which they seek employment.