Martin College is an Australian vocational education and training (VET) provider with campuses in Brisbane

Brisbane

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, Gold Coast

Gold Coast, Queensland

Gold Coast is a coastal city of Australia located in South East Queensland, 94km south of the state capital Brisbane. With a population approximately 540,000 in 2010, it is the second most populous city in the state, the sixth most populous city in the country, and also the most populous...

 and central Sydney

Sydney

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. The college is also part of Study Group International, a worldwide specialist education company.

Martin College provides accredited

Accreditation

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, nationally recognised diploma

Diploma

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 and certificate

Academic certificate

An academic certificate is a document that certifies that a person has received specific education or has passed a test or series of tests.In many countries, certificate is a qualification attained in secondary education. For instance, students in the Republic of Ireland sit the Junior Certificate...

 courses in the areas of business and management, marketing

Marketing

Marketing is the process used to determine what products or services may be of interest to customers, and the strategy to use in sales, communications and business development. It generates the strategy that underlies sales techniques, business communication, and business developments...

, information technology

Information technology

Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

, travel and tourism, event management

Event management

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 and graphic design

Graphic design

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.

History

Martin College was established in 1976, when the Lorraine Martin Receptioniste and Deportment Academy, founded by Lorraine Martin, commenced trading. By 1985 it was known as Lorraine Martin Commercial College Limited and operated under that title until November 1995 when it was purchased by Education and Training Australia Pty Limited.

Education and Training Australia Pty Limited became the Registered Training Organisation, which traded as Lorraine Martin College Pty Limited. Martin continued as a director and consultant to the company until her retirement in April 1997.

In October 1997, Education and Training Australia Pty Limited changed its name to Study Group Australia Pty Limited, and became the Registered Training Provider as of 1 January 1998. The vocational education and training division continued to operate as Lorraine Martin College Pty Limited. All marketing and advertising up to that time, both onshore and offshore, featured the use of the founder’s name: Lorraine Martin.

In August 1998, Lorraine Martin College Pty Limited was re-named Martin College Pty Limited, and became commonly known as Martin College.

NTIS, NARA and CRICOS registrations

Martin College offers courses based on the Australian Government’s Nationally Endorsed Training packages as listed at the National Training Information Service (NTIS), the database on vocational education and training in Australia. NTIS is the official national register of information on Training Packages, Qualifications, Courses, Units of Competency and Registered Training Organisations (RTOs).

As a multi-state organisation, Martin College operates under the NARA, the National Audit and Registration Agency, which provides audit and registration services for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) that operate in more than one Australian State or Territory. These are known as multi-jurisdictional RTOs.

Martin College is able to accept non-Australian students as it is registered on the Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students

Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students

The Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students is an Australian government register that lists all Australian education providers offering courses to people studying in Australia on student visas and the courses offered....

(CRICOS).

Sources

• Lorraine Martin’s Australian Honour

http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/honour_roll/search.cfm?aus_award_id=881389&search_type=quick&showInd=true