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Jen Bighel. Tutor of WEA Sydney

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Bob Binning has been in the aviation industry his entire working life. From a ground mechanic he rose to become a domestic and international airline captain and was appointed to Training and Check Airman status in Canada. As a Check and Training Captain he was responsible for training pilots to a standard and ensuring competency levels were maintained. He lived and worked in that and other flying capacities in the UK, Canada, Middle East, Africa, South East Asia and South America. In recent years he has been lecturing as a theory instructor at a Commercial Pilot School in Sydney. Bob is the author of four published books; three on aviation and one on travel.

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Dr Michael Birrell gained his undergraduate Honours degree from the University of Sydney in archaeology, followed by a Master’s degree and a doctorate in Egyptology from Macquarie University. He has been a tutor in Egyptology at Macquarie University since 1992, as well as standing in on many instances as a part-time lecturer.

He has presented a wide range of continuing education courses in this period, at Sydney and Macquarie Universities, as well as special presentations for learned Societies (eg the Rundle, the Australian Museum Society, etc.) and at conferences. He is widely published, and leads an annual study tour of Egypt.

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Phillip Bischofs. Tutor of WEA Sydney

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Julie Blair is an experienced teacher of English, French and ESL, recently retired. Her lifelong love of language and literature has led, by extension, to an interest in cryptic crosswords, in which she also teaches a course at the WEA.

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Jill Blee. Tutor of WEA Sydney

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Nicolas Bleszynski. Tutor of WEA Sydney

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Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya, BS, PhD, has taught in the fields of STEAM, including the history of mathematics and amusing mathematics, history of literature and creative writing and has taught in WEA for the last four years. She is a published author of poetry and papers on literary research and mathematics in arts. She is a researcher and teacher passionate about inclusive education, neurodiversity and educational psychology. Tatiana uses various teaching techniques encouraging the students to actively participate in the studying process and make their own discoveries in the subject. Tatiana believes that creativity is for everyone and studying can and should be fun.

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Harold Bonnington. Tutor of WEA Sydney

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Book Collectors' Society of Australia. Tutor of WEA Sydney