Resume

Maria Teixeira-Alves studied Germanic Philology at Porto University in Portugal before coming to Australia where she graduated from the University of Sydney with a major in Linguistics and then undertook post-graduate studies in Vocational Education and Training and Public Relations at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Maria has led a career in the development and implementation of policies, training programs and resources in the NSW Department of Education and Training for 23 years. She also taught Portuguese to speakers of other languages in the Cambridge Institute in Porto and reading and writing to adults in the Portuguese Association in Sydney. Maria is a native speaker of Portuguese and has also studied French and Italian at the University of Sydney.