Taylors College Melbourne

Taylors College Melbourne
Annual Report
2010
This Report
2010 - Celebrating 90 years of
education in the city P1
Statistical Snapshot P2
College Community Feedback P3
Teaching and Learning Goals 2011 P4
2010 – Celebrating 90 years of Education in the City
August 25, 2010 marked the 90th anniversary of George Taylor & Staff – the forerunner of Taylors College – opening its doors
in Melbourne. A party to celebrate the 90 th anniversary was held. Guests included past staff and students, university
representatives, Melbourne agents, past owners of Taylors College and present staff and students. Kaye Boniface, our
receptionist who has worked at Taylors for 46 years and Katie Phan , the chairperson of the Student Representative Committee
officiated in the cutting of the 90th birthday cake.
Founded in 1920 by teacher George Taylor, George Taylor & Staff was one of a number of coaching colleges established to
tutor students of the University of Melbourne. Within a few years ‘Taylors’ had overtaken most of the other coaching colleges
in terms of student numbers. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s Taylor’s College tutored thousands of students in preparing for
entry to the public service, teaching and nursing exams and during these years the Correspondence and Night Schools of the
College tutored many thousands of students. So successful was the College at providing this service that it opened a campus
in Sydney in 1936. With the advent of World War 2 many young men needed to improve their educational qualifications for
service in the armed forces and so Taylor’s assisted them in gaining these qualifications. Following the war many more
students sought assistance from Taylor’s College in augmenting their educational qualifications, many going on to university.
Approximately 10,000 service and ex-service personnel enrolled in courses offered by the College. The College enrolled its
first student from China in 1925. In the 1950s the College enrolled a large number of students who had been sent to Australia
to further their education under the Colombo Plan. The 1960s saw the College open a campus in Hong Kong and subsequently
another in Kuala Lumpur. The College also established a Hotel Management School in Hong Kong. In the early 1980s the
College began enrolling students at its Melbourne campus from south-east Asian countries – Malaysia, Singapore, India – and
in the 1990s China became the main source of students studying for university entrance through the College’s programs.
Between 1920 and 1970 some 320,000 students gained educational qualifications through the College.
Taylor’s College remained a family-run business with George Taylor at the helm for fifty-four years, until 1974. For fifty years
George Taylor was assisted by Miss Inez Sexton who served as vice-principal. In 1997 Taylors College became part of the
Study Group network of companies.

Statistical Snapshot 2010
Staff Statistics
It is a condition of employment that all
teaching staff maintain VIT registration.
Staff Numbers
Category Number Full time
Equivalent
Teaching 50 30.32
Staff
Non-
27 20.46
Teaching
Staff
Staff Attendance:
Category
Number
Teaching Staff 94%
Staff Retention Rate:
Staff Retained from 2010 – 2011: 95%
Student Statistics
Enrolment Numbers *(census Aug “10)
Year 10 46
Year 11 143
Year 12 148
Total 337
Percentage of students born overseas:
89.32 %
Percentage of students with Language
background other than English: 86.49%
Student Attendance Rate: 92%
VCE Completion Rate: 96 %
High Achievers 2010
Student
ATAR
PHAN Anh Thu 99.85
LE, Thi Thanh Hang 99.75
TAN, Chelsea 99.05
KURNIAWAN, Ariefandi 98.85
CHENG, Xue Jun 98.60
SHI, Dao Yuan 98.45
LIKHOVETSKY, Julian 98.25
NGUYEN, Thanh Nhan 98.25
GOH, Victor 98.00
ATAR
ATAR Percentage of
Taylors Students
>=90 19%
>=80 and =70 and =60 and =50 and

Taylors College: Social
Justice
Summary of Taylors College Student Survey
2010
Each year Taylors College students
participate in an annual survey.
The
survey questions attempt to gauge
student response to;
College environment
Teaching
Staff
Reporting
Seventy six per cent of students accessed
study smart from home and school.
Forty three per cent of students accessed
Studysmart on their laptop. Thirty eight
per cent of students accessed Studysmart
from the school student access rooms in
their free time. Interestingly seven per
cent of students accessed the learning
system on their iPhones.
Areas for improvement include;
Taylors College, through Study
Group is engaged with Building
Futures, a company charity
dedicated to the construction of
schools in developing countries.
Through Building Futures Taylors
college organizes fundraising events
for staff and students.
Over the years our fundraising
efforts have contributed to the
construction of schools in five
different countries.
These are:
1. SD Saney School, Aceh
Indonesia
2. Van Han Commune
School, Dong Hy, Vietnam
3. Xiao Feng Primary School,
Liu Shu, China
4. Rozalina Zaidan School,
Codo Novo, Brazil
Facilities
Extra –curricula Activities.
Increasing the range of
extracurricular activities
5. Zounzounkanme School,
Benin, West Africa.
Student satisfaction in all these areas
was very good.
In 2010, questions also included a review
of student interaction with Study smart..
Studysmart is the name of the Moodle
online learning system used at the
college.
In terms of Studysmart usage;
Used no. of times a week %
5 or more times 18.66
2 -4 times 39.62
Once a week 24.07
Less than once a week 15.28
Never 2.37
Crowding of lifts
Overall 84% students were satisfied with
their Taylors college experience.
Parent Feedback
“I really don't know how to thank you the teaching team for the dedication and encouragement
that they give to my girl her performance really shocked me with 97.65, she get even higher
than her sister who studied in another private higher school” Parent 2010
Parent feedback is received in a number of ways at Taylors College. Feedback from
our parents is positively received as it informs our decision making and planning.
Feedback in 2010 was received from parent meetings on campus and in China, and
comments received via our overseas agents. From the feedback received areas for
improvement include;
Online reporting
Online parent teacher interviews for international parents
Review of the class times