Thankyou for choosing to study with ICI College. I'd like to bring you up to date with what's happening. ICI College has now relocated to Tasmania. Tasmania is an ideal place for our College to be based for a number of reasons. Many of you have already found that your assignments and projects are being turned around much quicker than previously. We no longer outsource any of our work- everything is done in-house. This has helped us to keep the costs down and improve our efficiencies. Here's what some of you are now saying about the new ICI College-
We have several students who have completed nearly every ICI subject necessary to earn their BA degree. I was encouraged in talking recently with a pastor in Western Australia who has been studying consistently with ICI for several years. He is just one or two subjects away from graduating with a BA in Bible/Theology. He ministers in an isolated town of around 1,000 people and leads a church of around 25 people. His ICI studies had been his lifeline to ministry input. Another student in NSW is on the staff of a very large church and has just completed his last subject to also earn his B.A. in Bible/Theology. And several students have just recently received their Training Certificates in Christian Service and Ministry. ACCREDITATION The best accreditation is what the student is able to do, and be, as a result of their studies. ICI courses are developed to minister not just educate. They carry extremely high accreditation in the USA, which is recognised around the world. But more importantly, they have a ministry component to each of them which no Government accreditation agency could evaluate. Here's what one of our students recently said-
COSTS LEARNING CENTRES The benefits for establishing a Learning Centre is that it provides corporate (group) motivation for those who may find independent study too great a challenge. The group can work through each subject at their own pace within the time-frame allocated. The church receives a group discount on each subject which can be used to raise some much needed revenue. All the administration and marking is done by our office, so there's really no need for the Learning Centre to take up too much valuable administrative time at the local church. Pastors now planning their discipleship strategy for next year might like to consider to commencing an ICI Learning Centre. Contact us for more details. MINISTRY DEVELOPMENT ICI College offers a number of Advanced Certificates which are all Degree level studies and can build toward a degree. Every leader would benefit from undertaking an Advanced Certificate in The Pentecostal Message which includes the following subjects: Acts, Corinthians, Pneumatology, A Biblical Survey of Worship, and, A Strategy for Church Growth. Please email us for more information. We'd love to send you our latest Prospectus which outlines our courses and awards. If you have any queries at all please contact us. We want to serve you as you seek to serve the Lord. Regards,
Dr.
Andrew Corbett Contact Sari Kuronen in our National
Office (03) 63301333
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We
are currently working through the necessary processes to gain Australian
accreditation for our courses. We have letters from most State Ministry
of Education Departments stating that they recognise Global/ICI University
but that it is still up to individual higher education providers to
determine whether they accept foreign degrees for transfer credits.
But this condition also applies to other Australian institutional degrees.
I recently heard of a student graduating from an Australian Bible College
with their VETAB approved ministry degree who was refused entry into
another Higher Education institution to undertake further Theological
studies because their degree was deemed to be below par. This illustrates
that accreditation does not necessarily mean what some people assume
it means.
The
costs of running any College are always a challenge. ICI College is
now being run by a full-time volunteer, Sari Kuronen, who receives a
small honorarium for her dedicated work. I serve as the honourary President.
While other institutions are reviewing their academic and tuition fees
with a view to increasing them, we have taken the step to contain our
fees and in some cases even reduce them slightly. ICI College now offers
excellent value for money for Bible/Theology/Ministry education and
training. The costs associated with earning an award from ICI College
should really be thought of as an investment into your own life. If
you have not studied with us for while, we encourage you to once again
set your goals, and pick up your study programme. 
It
is vital for those in, or entering, ministry to keep themselves sharp
through deliberate study of God's Word. In industry it is fairly typical
for a company to put their staff through constant training and development.
Local church boards should consider sponsoring their pastors or leaders
to undertake a systematic course of study through ICI. 
