... a word about our lecturers

Accounting

Judy Press is a current Year 12 Accounting Teacher. She has over 30 years’ experience in the field. She is also head of Business Studies at Frankston High School and is a Member of VCE Professional Learning team.

Judy has conducted the revision sessions at Monash University Peninsula Campus since their inception and has received excellent feedback from students who attend her sessions.

Biology

Bree Pertzel is Head of Science at Sandringham College (senior campus) and has been teaching senior biology for five years.

Bree is also an exam assessor for both units 3 and 4 Biology and is one of the Yr 11/12 coordinators at the school for 2007. She has been involved in the VCE Revision lecture series at Monash Peninsula for 2 years and also presents revision classes at Monash Caulfield. Bree’s lecture style and content is well received by attendees and her lectures are always a sellout…….Be Quick!

Chemistry

Ewa Biviano is a senior chemistry teacher at St.Bede's College Mentone and was involved in marking Yr 12 chemistry Unit 4 Exams in 2006. She has a Bachelor of Science (Chemistry and Mathematics), a Masters in Science (Chemistry) and a Diploma of Education.  Ewa has taught Chemistry for the past seven years and prior to that time she worked at CSIRO at the Mineral and Processing Engineering Unit, as an Experimental Scientist.

This is Ewa’s second year presenting the Chemistry Revision Lecture at Peninsula and she has received excellent feedback from students attending her session.

Physics

Kalyan Chand has been a senior physics teacher for the past 20 years. He is currently teaching Year 12 physics at Kambrya College where he is also the science coordinator. Kalyan has been a VCE Physics Assessor for past seven years.

This is Kalyan’s second year presenting the Physics VCE Revision lecture at Peninsula. Kalyan has proved very popular with the students and has received excellent reviews.

Psychology

Travis Smith has been teaching VCE Psychology for many years.   He is the Assistant Principal at Frankston High School as well as teaching Year 12 Psychology.  He lectures at Monash University in the Education Faculty training the Psychology teachers of the future.

Travis has conducted the Psychology revision lecture at Monash University Peninsula Campus since their inception 4 years ago and constantly receives excellent feedback from students who attend his sessions year after year.  His session is very popular. Be Quick!