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National Education => Tuition Companies and Services => Tuition and Education Services => VCE (and related) Businesses => Topic started by: jayfan on January 19, 2010, 12:58:23 am

Title: Engage Education Foundation?
Post by: jayfan on January 19, 2010, 12:58:23 am
Does anyone know about this company/organisation? Their web is: http://engageeducation.org.au/

I got a message from them on facebook inviting me to be a tutor, but I have never heard of them...
Title: Re: Engage Education Foundation?
Post by: lolbox on January 19, 2010, 01:04:34 am
Yea its a kid called Callum Forbes who decided to start up a (claimed) not-for-profit company. He has been stalking/adding randoms on facebook, based on there study scores which he got from the herald sun, and asking them to be tutors in his company.

pretty funny to me but lots of people I know are interested
Title: Re: Engage Education Foundation?
Post by: RainerWolfram on January 19, 2010, 01:13:35 am
hmm that's weird, http://vceonline.com.au links to that website as well
Title: Re: Engage Education Foundation?
Post by: Collin Li on January 19, 2010, 12:35:06 pm
Quote from: lolbox on January 19, 2010, 01:04:34 am
Yea its a kid called Callum Forbes who decided to start up a (claimed) not-for-profit company. He has been stalking/adding randoms on facebook, based on there study scores which he got from the herald sun, and asking them to be tutors in his company.

pretty funny to me but lots of people I know are interested

You can't just "claim" to be a not-for-profit.
Title: Re: Engage Education Foundation?
Post by: ninwa on January 19, 2010, 12:44:00 pm
He's the founder of the "VCE Foundation" which attempted to run the VCE Seminars
Title: Re: Engage Education Foundation?
Post by: Gloamglozer on January 19, 2010, 01:00:49 pm
Quote from: ninwa on January 19, 2010, 12:44:00 pm
He's the founder of the "VCE Foundation" which attempted to run the VCE Seminars

How did those VCE Seminars go, as in success wise?
Title: Re: Engage Education Foundation?
Post by: ninwa on January 19, 2010, 01:36:50 pm
No idea. We did track the vceseminars site for a while, but there was never any information on who the teachers would be. They clearly had already booked UoM for the location though, so I'm guessing they were held.

EDIT: www.vceseminars.org.au auto-directs to https://engageeducation.org.au/seminars, but that link doesn't actually work
EDIT2: thank you Google http://74.125.153.132/search?q=cache:bq8ipGNMu3MJ:www.vceseminars.org.au/+VCe+seminars&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk
Title: Re: Engage Education Foundation?
Post by: Collin Li on January 21, 2010, 06:07:34 pm
I've heard that if you're having seminars with Engage, it's a waste of time (duplicate) to have em with TSFX.

(And of course, you'd choose Engage for lower prices. They're like a low-cost TSFX competitor from what I've gathered - that's easy if your company is not trying to make profit, like TSFX)