About Us
Who is Eastern?
Eastern College Australia is a Christian tertiary education provider, located in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, and the only higher education institution in Victoria offering both face-to-face and on-line classes across a range of awards and disciplines.
Previously known as Tabor College Victoria, Eastern has over 30 years’ experience in higher education and is nationally accredited and registered with ASQA and Higher Education courses with TEQSA.
We pride ourselves in nurturing the student journey and in the 2020 QILT Student Experience Survey, we ranked 3rd in Australia for overall student satisfaction.
Our programs are flexible, thoughtful, and transformative; our faculty are highly qualified, experienced and passionate. Our close-knit community will give you the opportunity to form relationships with your lecturers, each of whom will get to know you personally and walk with you through your learning experience. You’ll find a rich and diverse community here, where you’re likely to discover lifelong friends.
PRINCIPAL'S
Welcome
At Eastern College Australia, we believe that God has uniquely gifted, shaped and called you. And we are privileged to come alongside you, and help equip, train and empower you to fulfil your God-given potential, wherever it may take you, and whatever that may be.
For some, coming to Eastern is just one step in an exciting journey of discovery, learning more about yourself, your gifts and talents, your opportunities, and how God wants to direct your life.
Many choose to study at Eastern because they deeply value our Christ-centered ethos; providing a Christian framework for life and service across a vast range of vocational and professional settings; education, counselling, chaplaincy, aid and development … the list is endless!
Our courses are all centred on a biblical foundation, and many of our Awards are infused not only with rich and thorough Christian principles, but a deep sense of the missional heart of God. And of course you’ll find a rich and diverse community, in which you are likely to discover lifelong friends.
If you are passionate about the call of God on your life, and seeking, in the words of the Apostle Paul, to be “thoroughly equipped for every good work” – consider becoming a student at Eastern College Australia. Together, we may just impact the world.
Rev Timothy Meyers (MTh, BEd)
Executive Principal
Our Mission
Our Values
FAITH
Eastern is committed to Christ-centred, biblically-based, character-forming and gift-affirming faith expressed in vocational living, supportive community, service to others and connection to the church.
REASON
Eastern is committed to the pursuit of knowledge and truth that integrates theory and practice and values academic excellence, the importance of the mind and life-long learning.
JUSTICE
Eastern is committed to act justly in all human relationships, to exercise responsible care and stewardship of God’s creation, and to seek the just transformation of our world.
Where we stand
Theological Position
Eastern is an evangelical college, thoroughly committed to the infallibility of the Bible as the foundation for training and the empowering of the Spirit for service. We believe and affirm this Statement of Belief.
In 2018, Eastern College Australia – formerly Tabor College Victoria – relocated to MST’s Wantirna campus, and the two schools entered into a new, and unique ‘two-college, one community’ relationship.
Both institutions remain separate in terms of accreditation; MST is a provider of Australian College of Theology courses in Bible and Theology, while Eastern is a Higher Education Provider in its own right. However, despite being two separate legal entities, both operate in partnership with each other and have a merged operational footprint. This allows for opportunities available to students to be significantly broadened, with new avenues for interdisciplinary Christian education, and cross-institutional credit for a range of subjects from theology to counselling.
The collaborative partnership significantly strengthens and broadens our capacity to serve the church, and equip God’s people to live for, and testify to, our Lord Jesus Christ. Being able to offer biblically focused courses at Eastern College Australia across a range of disciplines, including education, counselling, chaplaincy and pastoral care, in addition to the existing courses at MST in theology, Biblical studies, mission and ministry makes for a rich, and profoundly valuable learning environment for all our students.
While our respective faculties generally work within their natural teams (MST English, MST Chinese and Eastern), we are also seeing a sharing of teaching and delivery as well, with MST and Eastern faculty teaching in both institutions.
This collaborative partnership provides for a unique experience for our students that transcends an average college experience.
“Every day at MST and Eastern we see God at work, bringing about a beautiful convergence of theological truth, identity, calling and vocation in ways that shape women and men long after their studies here are over,” noted Tim Meyers, Executive Principal of both Colleges. “We are so thankful for this unique privilege.”
“Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil,” Ecclesiastes 4:9.
Want to find out more? We invite you to come experience this difference at our colleges where we are Two Colleges, One Community.
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