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Academic Support
- Who’s Who?
Vice Principal - Academic
The student support team is managed by the Vice Principal
- Academic (VPA). By keeping track of your academic
progress, monitoring feedback from your lecturers and
through your evaluation of their teaching, the VPA is able to
ensure that effective learning and teaching is taking place in
the classroom.

Academic Development Coordinators
Working closely with the VPA are Academic Development
Coordinators (ADCs), experienced and passionate education
experts who work closely with both students and the
lecturing team to keep the academic heart beating
on campus.
At higher education level, students need to acquire the
skills and academic literacies to develop their abilities to
write well from informed sources and reflect critically on
new knowledge.
Should you find yourself facing challenges in the classroom,
or with your own studies, your ADC is there to assist you in
any way possible.
Whether it’s time management, study skills, assignment
writing, referencing techniques to avoid plagiarism, or exam
preparation — your ADC can assist. We encourage you to
engage with both your subject lecturer and the ADCs as you
acquire the academic skills needed to succeed. Students who
do this tend to show a marked improvement in their results
and reap the benefit of more personalised attention.
The ADCs also welcome students and their parents to
approach them at any time to collaborate on solving any
learning and teaching challenges – before these turn into
issues.
It is not only students who benefit from the experience of
the ADC team; the ADCs are also responsible for identifying
and nurturing best teaching practice in our lecturers,
conducting peer reviews of lecturers’ teaching skills with a
view to improving delivery to students. You will also have the
opportunity to evaluate your lecturers’ teaching as it impacts
on your learning, and the ADC uses all this feedback to assist
the lecturers to enhance your classroom experience.
What this means for you, the student, is that Varsity College
continually stays at the forefront of the best learning and
teaching practices, enabling us to deliver the highest quality
classroom experience, designed to ensure your success.