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Dorothea Suess is a German teacher with experience in both adult and childhood education. She holds a Bachelor of Education from Johann Wolfgang-Goethe-University in Frankfurt, and previously worked in Germany as a primary school teacher before moving to Australia. Dorothea taught German at the Goethe Institut in Sydney from 2014 to 2015 and first taught with the Centre for Continuing Education in 2014. As well as her passion for the teaching of German language and culture, Dorothea very much enjoys working within a multicultural environment.

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James has a BA degree in Education from China and has extensive experience in teaching Mandarin to overseas students, including teaching Chinese at a top international school in South East Asia. He has also taught Mandarin to adult students from English-speaking backgrounds at the Language Exchange Sydney.

James has also worked for multinational companies in China and Australia, and this business experience has helped him to understand the essentials required to teach Mandarin as a foreign language and to enable learners to use their language in real life and business situations.

James holds a master’s degree in both Commerce (UNSW) and Media Communications, and currently works for a leading tourism organisation as an International Media Consultant. This job has enabled him to build solid skills required to work in a cross-cultural and global environment, and he is frequently called upon to use his Chinese language skills.

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Yingli holds a PhD in Chinese Literature from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University, China. She also obtained both her Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in English Language and Literature in China. Yingli has a keen interest in Chinese language and culture, and enjoys sharing with others her understanding of this beautiful and unique language and culture. She loves teaching and has been teaching Chinese language and culture courses at various levels, from total beginners to highly advanced professional Chinese. In addition to her teaching at CCE, Yingli is currently teaching advanced Chinese courses at the School of International Studies, the University of New South Wales.

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Mark is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney. His research is focused on the recent output of Bob Dylan (including his albums, films, book and radio programmes) and discusses how Dylan manipulates notions of tradition and influence in the creation of his work.

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George Sved. Tutor of CCE

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Lynne Swarts. Tutor of CCE

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Marlene Tait. Tutor of CCE

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Tamaki Takano. Tutor of CCE

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Cindy Tan. Tutor of CCE

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Richard Tan is a web designer/developer, digital media designer and an award winning IT professional. He has produced work for companies like Lion Nathan, Colonial First State, Qantas and Cisco. Richard has taught digital media and IT subjects for over 20 years, and at The University of Sydney since 2001. He is ITIL V3 certified and also holds a Cert IV in Workplace Assessment and Training.

Having programmed in languages as diverse as Perl, ActionScript, Java, C#.NET and JavaScript, Richard can recommend PHP as the easiest programming language to start with. It is for this reason that he has continued to teach his PHP and MySQL courses for over 16 years at the University of Sydney’s Centre for Continuing Education.

Originally from Sydney, Richard now resides on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland. Although he has created online, distance and blended courses for many organisations, his passion for face-to-face teaching sees him fly back to Sydney to continue teaching the courses that he and his students love.