Pentecostal institution wins promotion to ‘university college’

A Pentecostal college that has seen student enrolments grow fivefold in the past decade has won an appeal to be included in an elite group of education institutions able to use the title university college.

Alphacrucis College, based in Sydney’s Parramatta, appealed after its bid to become come a university college was rejected by the higher education regulator, and challenged the decision in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.