Admissions Information
Admissions Information
We know that good preparation and well-implemented strategies can not only improve the quality of life of our residents but also save lives.
Sydney enjoys a reputation as one of the safest and most liveable cities in the world. From time to time, there can be emergencies. Severe storms with strong winds and lightning strikes, heavy rainfall and flash flooding, and extreme heat during a heatwave are the most likely emergency.
It’s our priority to do everything in our power to ensure that our students have access to help when needed and feel safe at home and work.
On campus: Campus opening hours : 8.00am to 5.00pm
On campus: After hours contact : 1300 967 477
Follow the emergency plan and the instructions from our safety and emergency wardens
Police Off campus – emergency: Dial 000
Police Off campus – not emergency: Dial 92656499 for local police station
Crime Stoppers – 1800 333 000
Police Assistance Line – 131 444
Domestic Violence – 1800656463 (Department of Community and Family Services)
Child Protection Hotline – 132111 (Department of Community and Family Services)
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Emergency – 9515 6111
St Vincent’s Hospital Psychiatric Emergency Care – 8382 111
Sydney Hospital – 02 9382 7111
Sydney Eye Hospital 02 9382 7354
Aboriginal Medical Service – 9319 5823
Central Sydney Area Mental Health Service – 9515 9000 (Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm)
Central Sydney Area Sexual Health Service – 9560 3057 (Monday – Friday, 8.45am – 4.45pm)
Medical Services
– Dr Lun General Practice 8 Quay Street Haymarket
– Sydney Central Medical Center, Level 3 Suite 306 451 Pitt St Haymarket
– Worldciti Medical, Level 1, 710 Geroge Str Haymarket
– Haymarket Medical Clinic, World Square, Level 5 Suite 53 650 George Street Sydney
On campus: Use our academic online and physical library. Ask our part time librarian for assistance.
Off campus: Free membership of local libraries is available for all students.
City of Sydney Library: Phone 92659333 Email: Library@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au
Darling Square library is closest library: Levels 1 and 2, 1 Little Pier Street Haymarket. https://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/libraries/darling-square-library
All libraries: https://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/libraries
Inner City Legal Centre – Legal services are provided through advice, representation and advocacy.
02 9332 1966 (Office), 1800 244 481 (Toll Free), 0466 724 979
Shopfront Youth Legal Centre – Free advice for young people under 25 in the Sydney Metro Area.
Phone: 93224808
Email: https://www.theshopfront.org
Redfern Legal Centre – Free legal advice.
Phone: 93987277
Email: info@rlc.org.au
HopeStreet Women’s Space Services for women including counselling and advocacy.
Phone: 0432557091
Email: https://www.hopestreet.org.au
Aboriginal Legal Service – Advice and assistance for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Phone: 92134100
Email: community@alsnswact.org.au
Information and Privacy Commission NSW
Phone: 1800472679
Email: ipcinfo@ipc.nsw.gov.au
Commonwealth Ombudsman
Phone: 1300362072 obudsman@ombudsman.gov.au
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (Sydney)
Phone: 92309133 https://www.accc.gov.au
It’s normal to need a bit of extra help from time to time as you are trying to manage your studies, the demands of everyday life and perhaps the added challenge of adjusting to a new culture. The contacts on this page are useful resources so that you can get the help you need for coping with your studies and with life in general.
Southern Academy International Student Officer
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Campus Counselling Services:
Free and confidential counselling is available from our on-campus counselling services:
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Free National Helplines
Lifeline: Call if you are feeling overwhelmed, if you are worried about someone else or you need help in a crisis.
Phone 13 11 14 or visit www.lifeline.org.au
Suicide Call Back Service: A nationwide service for people affected by suicide.
Phone 1300 659 467 or visit www.suicidecallbackservice.org.au
Alcohol and Drug Information Service: A free 24 hour support line on 1800 250 015.
Gamblers Anonymous: Assistance for compulsive gamblers, and their family and friends 9726 6625 ga_nsw@hotmail.com
Websites:
Head to Health: This website can help you find digital mental health services from trusted organisations. Visit www.headtohealth.gov.au
Reach Out: The most accessed online mental health service for young people in Australia. Find self-help information, peer support and referral tools. Visit https://au.reachout.com/
Health and Leisure
Midnight Basketball – a late night social basketball competition providing high energy, fun, social, inclusive, healthy, safe, motivating and free tournaments
info@midnightrbasketball.org.au
Redfern Community Centre – 92885713
The Centre for Volunteering – Connects people and organisations in order to enrich the community. 0261 3600
Big Brother Big Sisters of Australia – Provides one to one mentoring programs for young people aged 7-17 years of age 1300463686
Reporting Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment
CONSENT and SASH (Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment)
Good relationships are all about respecting and trusting each other. At the heart of enjoyable, healthy and safe sexual experiences is a focus on consent. Always make sure that your partner gives their consent before engaging in sexual activity.
Consent is the free and voluntary agreement to willingly engage in sexual activity of any kind. You know you have consent if you get an enthusiastic ‘yes’ (verbal or non-verbal) from the other person that indicates they want to participate in the sexual activity. Remember that they have the right to change their mind at any time. If they ask to stop, or give signs that they are uncomfortable, do not keep going or try to persuade them to keep engaging in the sexual activity. Consent cannot be assumed where a person:
What can I do? Ensure safety: If you believe there is an immediate risk to yourself or another person on campus, call security; or for off campus, call 000.
Seek advice: You can seek confidential advice from Student Services. We’ll help to:
How do I help someone else?
If someone you know has experienced sexual harassment, you should encourage them to discuss the matter with Student Services, a counsellor or GP, who can provide them with information, advice and support specific to their circumstances. Student Services can also provide advice for you to pass on to another person.
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Police 000
REPORT
Police Assistance Line and Online Reporting 131 444
Crime Stoppers 1800 333 000
SUPPORT
Lifeline 131 11 14
1800RESPECT 1800 737 732
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Call campus security
REPORT
Student Services
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Campus counselling
Southern Academy of Higher Education Pty Ltd
TEQSA Provider Code: PRV14365
CRICOS Provider Code: 04202B
Contact us
L1, 191 Thomas Street, Haymarket NSW 2000
1300 967 477 (In Australia)
02 9071 0177 (Outside Australia)
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We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all of the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside of it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and for MAC users.
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to