About Sage Education Australia
Twenty-eight years of vocational education in Queensland.
We’re a Queensland-owned training organisation that has taught aged care, disability, childcare and community services since 1998 — first as Hillcourt in Redcliffe, now as Sage across five centres with a sixth on the way. Same mindset the whole way: get you skilled, get you placed, get you working.
- 1998the year it began, in Redcliffe
- 5centres from Ipswich to the Sunshine Coast
- 4.9★on Google, from 717 reviews
- 50+staff — up from 4 in 2018
What we’re for
Vocational education that people respect again.
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Our mission
To give people real, job-ready skills — not a certificate that ticks a box. Practical, high-quality training that gets you employed and equips you to do the job well once you are. We do it through hands-on learning, real placements and close ties with the employers who’ll hire you, so that a vocational qualification means what it should: you can do the work.
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Our vision
A system that produces the high-quality, skilled workers the care and education sectors actually need — and puts training within reach of as many people as possible, in a form they can realistically finish. As we grow, we keep creating jobs at Sage too: a place where trainers, advisers and support staff build their own skills and careers, not just our students.
Our growth
Four people in 2018. Fifty-plus today. One campus in Redcliffe — five across South East Queensland.
New ownership in 2017, a year spent learning the business and setting the strategy, then Logan Central opened in 2018 with a team of four. COVID held us there until 2021. Since then the line has only gone one way.
hold
- 12×team growth since 2018
- 1 → 5campuses, 2017 to 2026
- 50+local jobs created at Sage
- 6,000+placements arranged for students
“Every centre we open is jobs twice over — the trainers and advisers we hire, and the hundreds of graduates who leave each year into work the community needs done.”
Kunal R — CEO & Director, Sage Education Australia
Where we are
Redcliffe → Logan Central → South East Queensland → Australia-wide online
- 1998–2022Redcliffe4021 · where it began
- 2018Logan Central4114 · head office
- 2022Kippa-Ring4021 · our second base
- OpenIpswich4305
- OpenStafford4053 · Brisbane north
- OpenNambour4560 · Sunshine Coast
- 1998The start, in RedcliffeIndustry professionals open a training hub on the peninsula. Not just a business — a commitment to nurturing local talent.
- 2005The go-to provider on the peninsulaHundreds of graduates a year. We were building a community as much as careers.
- 2014Subsidised trainingWe become a Queensland Government subsidised provider. Quality training becomes affordable for far more people.
- 2017New ownershipThe business changes hands. One campus, in Redcliffe. A year spent learning the structure and strategy, and working out how to position Sage for the next decade.
- 2018–19Logan Central opensA second campus and a team of four. Courses broaden and the systems that would carry the growth are built.
- 2020–21COVID, then a rebrandThe team holds at four through the pandemic — so we use the time. Hillcourt becomes Sage Education Australia, and by the end of 2021 the team is seven.
- 2022–25Rapid growthApril 2022: Redcliffe moves to Kippa-Ring. Then Ipswich, Stafford and Nambour. The team goes 11 → 20 → 23 → 35.
- 2026Fifty-plus staff, five campusesLogan Central as head office, Kippa-Ring as second base, and online delivery Australia-wide. Still Queensland-owned, still run by the person who took it on in 2017.
Why people choose Sage
Because we know what it takes. Ask our graduates.
Most of our students don’t come to us straight from school. They come after a redundancy, a divorce, a move, a decade raising kids. That shapes how we teach.
- Trainers who still work in the sectorEvery trainer has done the job they teach — and most still pick up shifts. You learn what actually happens on a ward, not what a textbook says should.
- Placement, arrangedWe work with you to organise your vocational placement, and help with the police check and paperwork. Placement is where most graduates meet their first employer.
- Straight talk about moneyWe check your funding eligibility before you enrol — and tell you exactly what you’ll pay. Most people are surprised how little.
Google reviews
4.9 stars on Google. Their words, not ours.
Industry partners
The employers who take our students on placement — and often keep them.
Accreditation
Registered, regulated, recognised.
Sage Education Australia is a Registered Training Organisation (RTO 5989) regulated by the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) and a Queensland Government Skills Assure Supplier — so eligible Queenslanders can study many of our qualifications subsidised under Career Start and Career Boost. Every qualification and skill set we deliver is nationally recognised under the Australian Qualifications Framework.
- Legal name
- Hillcourt Vocational Training Centre Pty Ltd, trading as Sage Education Australia
- RTO number
- 5989
- ABN
- 98 082 316 434
- Regulator
- Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA)
- Funding
- Queensland Government Skills Assure Supplier · Career Start & Career Boost
- Recognition
- Nationally Recognised Training · AQF Levels 3–6
- Head office
- 4/80 Wembley Road, Logan Central QLD 4114
- Second base
- 14 Boardman Road, Kippa-Ring QLD 4021
Enquire
Ten minutes with an adviser. A real one.
We’ll check your funding eligibility, talk through campuses and timetables, and give you the next intake date. No pressure, no jargon.
- 1You send the formTakes 30 seconds. Only the details we need to call you back.
- 2An adviser calls youWithin 2 business hours — a real person from one of our centres.
- 3You get a clear answerYour exact fee, next intake, and the campus that suits you.
- RTO 5989
- 4.9★ Google
- Est. 1998
