
| Home | About Us | Our Program | Machine Shorthand | History | Careers | Overseas | Jobs | Enrol | ![]() About us The NCCR’s Real-time Machine Shorthand Court Reporting and Captioning program celebrates its 22nd year. Paula Roberts, a former university lecturer, has directed the program since it began in 1987. Our ProgramThe NCCR’s unique, external study program is taught by working court reporters using an Australian Real-time Machine Shorthand Theory specially developed for the Australian context. What is machine shorthand?Machine shorthand is typed with a stenotype machine with only 22 keys. Missing letters are represented by pressing a combination of keys. The reporter can produce shorthand well in excess of 250 words a minute. A brief history of machine shorthandMachine shorthand can be traced back to 1910 when Ward Stone Ireland developed a typing machine that would print several letters, even a whole word, at one stroke of the keyboard. Careers in machine shorthandInclude highly paid, (Employed or Freelance) Court or Parliamentary Reporting, TV Captioning, CART Reporting for the hearing-impaired, Convention or Business Reporting, Medical or Legal Transcribing. Reporting overseasSome people dream of a job that will take them around the world. With a sense of adventure and with creativity and flexibility, reporters work internationally and enjoy glamorous and exciting life-styles. Recent examples of job opportunitiesSalaries ranged from $43,000 (magistrates clerks) to $104,000 (experienced reporters) in employment advertisements for Court and Hansard Reporters and Captioners around Australia in 2007. Our fees and enrolment proceduresFees are $1750 per academic year and include textbooks and individual telephone tutoring, use of a NCCR loan machine and speed development tapes. Our website includes an enrolment form. |
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