Peggy Aeschlimann’s love of the English language has given her the momentum to complete Chisholm certificate training which has impacted greatly on her life and the lives of the many Australian migrants that she teaches. “Over the past decades I have given several vocations a berth including computer programming and dolphin research. “None of them was the perfect fit.”

“The focus has been immense during my department’s TAFE training and assessment studies. All of us had our own ideas, no-one had written a training study package before.

Growing up in a household where her parents took in foster children taught Jenni Miles the value of compassion at an early age. “There were many confronting behaviours and hostile verbal exchanges in the home,” Jenni remembers, “But my brother and I were always encouraged to think about the challenges these kids had faced and always to look for the greatness in people.”