Sydney College of English (SCE), a founding member of the English Australia association, has closed down “due to the impact of Covid-19” according to a notice on the school’s website.
“As of Monday 1st June, all current students were transferred to IH Sydney where they will continue in the same course of study,” the notice states, though staff were available to assist until the end of June, 2020.
One SCE teacher told the Russian website SBS that she says she was proud to have been part of “one of the oldest and the most respected English colleges in Australia.”
Although SCE is the only Australian school closure to hit the headlines, Union representative Kendall Warren told SBS Russian that “two or three” Sydney language schools had closed in May.
Meanwhile in New Zealand, two school groups have also closed language centres. ICL has closed a small school in Napier, while CCEL has closed its Auckland campus.
