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Friday, 31 October, 2025
Dear Principals and School Leaders,
We’re pleased to share an excellent opportunity from the Department of Premier and Cabinet for bilingual Victorians interested in becoming qualified interpreters.
The 2026 Interpreter Scholarship Program provides funded training for people with language skills who wish to gain interpreter qualifications and support their communities. This initiative helps boost access to professional interpreters across Victoria’s diverse communities.
In 2026, scholarships will be available for the following languages:
- Diploma: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, Burmese, Khmer, Macedonian, Nepali, and Samoan.
- Advanced Diploma: Greek, Italian, Korean, Punjabi, Russian, Sinhalese, Tamil, Urdu, and Vietnamese.
- Skill Set: Albanian, Amharic, Bangla, Bislama, Chaldean Neo-Aramaic, Chichewa, Chin languages, Dinka, Fiji Hindi, Gujarati, Hakka Chinese, Hmong, Kannada, Kayah (Karenni), Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Kurdish Kurmanji, Lingala, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Mauritian Creole, Nuer, Oromo, Pashto, Rohingya, Somali, Swahili, Tigre, Tigrinya, Tok Pisin, Tongan and Ukrainian.
Applications for the Diploma and Advanced Diploma are already open. Applications for the Skill Set courses will open soon in early November 2025.
You can read more here: https://www.vic.gov.au/interpreter-scholarships
There will be 2 free information sessions for interested applicants to be held online soon:
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Friday 14 November 2025, 4:00–5:00 PM
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Thursday 11 December 2025, 4:30–5:30 PM
👉 Register for the information sessions here
We encourage schools to share this with teachers, assistants, or senior VCE students who may be interested in formal interpreting qualifications.
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Kind regards,
Heba El-Hakim, MBA
Projects & Communications Officer
Community Languages Victoria
📍 Level 2, 189 Faraday St, Carlton VIC 3053
📞 0430 744 094 | ✉️ heba.elhakim@communitylanguages.org.au
🌐 communitylanguages.org.au
I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which I work and pay my respects to Elders past, present, and emerging.
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