Starting Dates and Durations

Business, Business Administration and Executive Secretarial programs may be started at the beginning of each term through the year, subject to availability. Tourism and Hospitality programs start at the beginning of each year. The normal duration of each program is given on the program description pages and will be confirmed at time of enrolment. 

One semester = two terms. One term = 10 weeks.
There is a 1 or 2 week holiday between terms, and a 6 or 7 week holiday over Christmas/New Year.

Full Time Study

Subjects are timetabled from Monday to Thursday between 9am and 5pm. Here are two sample timetables that show you how the timetable works: one for Management/Marketing and one for Executive Secretarial.

Friday is used for various development activities and the College's Work Experience Program; otherwise you are free to use it for study, for work or as you please. Many students use Fridays to come to College to study, use the computer facilities, or for assignment or group project work. 

Part Time Study

College programs may be undertaken part time, two days a week, either Monday and Wednesday or Tuesday and Thursday, following the same pattern explained in Full Time Study above. This doubles the length of your course, but enables you to do substantial part time work at the same time as studying a major program. We will do our best to schedule you always on the same two days, but timetable constraints may make it necessary for you to switch from a Monday/Wednesday to a Tuesday/Thursday or vice versa. Our Student Services people can advise you of program availability. Part time study is not available to international students.