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Meet our newest STEPS AMEP trainer Anne McGown! Can you tell me about yourself? I am a semi-retired teacher in Alice Springs. I enjoy teaching students who need support. I have worked in [...]

Reuniting her family, building a life in a new country, learning English for the first time, a lot has happened in two short years for Awur Mabior Yaar Dupho. It wasn’t long ago that Awur first [...]

Rabia Chreki has been learning English in the Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP) in Alice Springs, she enjoys the teaching style and likes “meeting with different cultured students and studying [...]

One night each week Carey Trundle can be found in the classroom at STEPS Education and Training Casuarina. For the last 18 months, Carey has been volunteering at STEPS where she offers tutoring [...]

For Afghani born Ramzan Ali (Kabeer) moving to Australia was a huge step, one Kabeer knew he had to make to be with his Australian wife. “I used to live in Pakistan and my wife lived here (in [...]

For Rina Yulia, the benefits of Australian living are different from the ordinary. Moving to Darwin from Indonesia six years ago, Rina admired the challenges that Australia could bring, and [...]

Moving from Vietnam around ten months ago, Alissa says she was most impressed by the Australian sunset. “I love the sunset, it’s beautiful,” she said. Alissa moved to Australia as she had [...]

Student Support Officer Rachel Christo works with people studying in the Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP) at STEPS Education and Training in Casuarina. She offers support to new Australians [...]

For Rachel Christo, the high points of her job are the moments when she realises how much a student has learnt. Those moments happen when she’s talking with a student and suddenly realises that [...]

Yan Li studies at STEPS AMEP because she enjoys learning something new every day. She moved to Darwin after marrying her Australian husband and has been living in Australia for almost a year now. [...]