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STUDENT ARRIVAL GUIDE 2016 EYNESBURY Student Arrival Guide 2016 WELCOME 1 EYNESBURY Student Arrival Guide 2016 MAIN CONTENTS PREPARE FOR YOUR ARRIVAL In Adelaide, Australia. Main table of contents Section one Welcome......................................................2 Section two Pre-arrival .....................................................8 Section three Arrival and settling in ..........................................30 Section four Studying at Eynesbury.........................................85 Section five Social and cultural ...........................................133 Message from General Manager Eynesbury incorporates Eynesbury College, Staff provide the personal encouragement, Eynesbury College Academy of English individual tuition and assistance needed by (ECAE) and the Eynesbury Institute of most international students when first living Business and Technology (EIBT). away from home. Founded in 1989, Eynesbury has an We welcome the opportunity to help every outstanding record of academic achievement student achieve his or her personal goals and is highly experienced in the development and realise their full potential in the life long and delivery of programs specifically tailored journey of education. for international students. Malcolm Raedel Eynesbury also offers a full range of support General Manager services, including academic and vocational University Programs Division counselling, homestay and accommodation Navitas, South Australia at international student residences. Section one Welcome 2 EYNESBURY Student Arrival Guide 2016 SECTION SECTION ONE ONE WELCOME 3 EYNESBURY Student Arrival Guide 2016 SECTION S1C ONE Section one contents Introducing Adelaide .......................4 Introducing Eynesbury ......................5 Why study at Eynesbury? .....................5 Important information and emergency contacts ..6 Eynesbury main contact details . .6 Eynesbury Senior High School campus ...........6 Student accommodation ......................6 Emergency telephone numbers .................6 Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) ...6 OSHC (Overseas Student Health Cover) ...........6 Map of Adelaide ...........................7 4 EYNESBURY Student Arrival Guide 2016 SECTION Introducing Adelaide ONE Adelaide, the capital of South Australia and Australia’s fifth performers, the Adelaide Fringe Festival, a festival of comedy and alternative arts and largest city, is a world leader in research, technology and the WOMADelaide, a huge annual world-music arts. Three Nobel Prize winners and more than 100 Rhodes festival held in the beautiful Botanic parklands. The Art Gallery of South Australia, Scholars have graduated from the universities in Adelaide, the Migration Museum, South Australian showing a long tradition of academic excellence. Museum, the State Library and the Tandanya Aboriginal Centre, all in the city centre are also very interesting and important With a safe and relaxed environment, approximately A$14,000 - A$18,000 per places to visit. For more information visit a Mediterranean climate and an affordable year to cover living expenses in Adelaide southaustralia.com, and arts.sa.gov.au. lifestyle Adelaide is the perfect study depending on your type of lifestyle. destination and is becoming the ‘learning Besides these cultural events, Adelaide With a population of 1.2 million, Adelaide city’ of Australia. According to the offers fantastic out-door sports, is one of Australia’s most cosmopolitan Australian Bureau of Statistics, Adelaide world-renowned wineries, the beautiful and multicultural cities, with a wonderful is the fastest growing destination for Adelaide Hills and 22 kilometres of white mix of cultures, people from diverse ethnic international students in Australia and is sandy beaches. Being the ‘20 minute backgrounds and an enormous number of attracting around 26,000 international city’ you can leave the centre of Adelaide ethnically diverse foods, restaurants and students per year. This is still a small and arrive at either the beach or the leafy shops. Actually one in five South Australians number compared to Sydney or Melbourne, Adelaide Hills in 20 minutes. Adelaide city were born overseas — half in countries where a fact that gives you more of a chance to itself is very easy to navigate, consisting English is not the first language — so they are have a real Australian study experience. of a city square mile of broad streets with very welcoming of students from all cultures. an easy to follow transport system and a One of the main reasons for Adelaide’s In fact over the last two years international free inner-city bus service, all surrounded attractiveness to international students students have mentioned that one of by green parklands. You as an international is that it has the lowest cost of living of their top two reasons for loving Adelaide student in Adelaide are offered exactly any Australian mainland capital city but is the friendliness of the locals, the other the same public transport discounts as offers the same high standard of living. being the clean, green environment. locals, unlike in other Australian cities. In 2012, the Economist Intelligence unit South Australia is also known as the ‘Festival (EIU) research rated Adelaide as one of the All in all there are many reasons to choose State’ and is known for its active arts, music, top 10 places in the world to live, with the Adelaide as your study destination of food and wine scenes. It hosts world-class cost of living being 25 percent less than excellence and the more you explore events such as the Adelaide Bank Festival in Sydney and Melbourne, 11 percent less Adelaide and become involved in its study of Arts, one of the three great arts festivals than in Perth and Brisbane. You will require and social culture, the more memorable of the world featuring the world’s top your Adelaide experience will be. 5 EYNESBURY Student Arrival Guide 2016 SECTION Introducing Eynesbury ONE Eynesbury comprises Eynesbury College, Eynesbury A personalised and caring teaching style focuses on individual student needs. College Academy of English (ECAE) and the Eynesbury Eynesbury offers state-of-the-art facilities Institute of Business and Technology (EIBT). Eynesbury and teachers who are very approachable, friendly and available outside of class is a specialist pre-university institution where you for consultation. work towards the goal of university entrance. It offers Although Eynesbury’s learning environment a comprehensive range of pre-university programs is extremely supportive, you will be treated available in South Australia, providing pathways into the as young adults who are encouraged and guided towards assuming more University of Adelaide, the University of South Australia responsibility for your own learning and and the International College of Hotel Management academic progress. This means you will receive the right kind of preparation for (ICHM). Being the provider of successful university university studies. preparatory programs, Eynesbury has excellent Facilities credentials in preparing you for university life and study. Student services encompass admissions, accommodation assistance and other The Eynesbury Coglin Street and Franklin Experienced provider in student support staff who are all Street campuses are located in the centre international education conveniently co-located on the ground floor of the City of Adelaide in close proximity Eynesbury has been a registered and of the new Coglin Street campus. Eynesbury to Rundle Mall, the main shopping district. accredited provider of international has ultra modern facilities including student The Coglin Street campus is opposite programs for more than 20 years. break out areas, kitchen facilities, a student the well-renowned Central Market, study barn, student computers and wireless Gouger Street restaurant precinct and Australian students on campus technology throughout, providing you with a Chinatown. It is a few minutes walk to the stimulating yet relaxing study environment. International High School students main shopping area, to all the well-known and the Eynesbury Foundation Studies banks, and to the free city transport link Flexibility (FSP) Program students studying in the to the University of Adelaide campus and Standard FSP program share certain Eynesbury offers you a comprehensive the City East and City West campuses classes with Australian students at range of alternative pathways towards a of the University of South Australia. Eynesbury. This provides you with the university degree as well as possible transfer opportunity to practise your English between pathways. This means that with Why study at Eynesbury? and establish long-lasting friendships the help of our qualified counsellors, you with Australian colleagues. are assisted with the most appropriate Impressive success rates pathway for your future study goals. Eynesbury has an impressive record Learning environment in terms of student results: Class sizes at Eynesbury are small. You can • Ninety percent of Eynesbury’s benefit from more contact hours than you Year 12 and University Foundation would typically receive at many universities. Studies students typically receive places at University. • Eynesbury has been a registered provider of international programs for more than 20 years. • Eynesbury teaching staff are specialists in their field and are among the most highly qualified and experienced teachers in the state. • Since 1990, 50 percent of Year 12 graduates have, typically, been