Story: Pathways to Success Indigenous education specialists come together to improve our outcomes. The second annual Indigenous Higher Education Conference was held in September of this year at the University of Western Australia, Perth. The Conference, called Partnerships, Pathways and Policies: Improving Indigenous Education Outcomes, focused on improving partnerships between key organisations to develop guaranteed […]
Story: Training Day Training Day Awards recognise the people who are training our future leaders. The Australian Minister for Vocational and Technical Education, the Hon. Gary Hardgrave MP, recently presented the 2006 Minister’s Awards for Excellence for Employers of Australian Apprentices at a gala dinner at Luna Park in Sydney. The Awards acknowledged 22 outstanding […]
Story: Getting it Right Helping young people from remote areas reach their goals. A group of participants from the Indigenous Youth Mobility Program (IYMP) came to Canberra on August 10 and 11 to provide direct input into in the 2006 IYMP Provider Forum. The IYMP provides young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from remote […]
Story: School of Life No basket too hard – life skills create new paths for young men. A course in life skills is making a real difference to the lives and futures of young Indigenous people of North West Queensland. The Course in Skills for the Future, currently running at the Mount Isa Institute of […]
Story: Ruby’s Reward An eminent Aboriginal author receives top award for a lifetime of educating others. Prominent Aboriginal author and historian Dr Ruby Langford Ginibi was honoured with the 2005 Australia Council for the Arts Writers Emeritus Award at a special ceremony at the Sydney Writers Festival in May this year. The $50,000 Writers Emeritus […]
The key to a healthier future lies in education. An education can do more than just open up future job opportunities. It has also been shown to have a profound impact on health and well-being. In the remote Jawoyn Indigenous communities to the east of Katherine, in the Northern Territory, a special project is helping […]
Two Indigenous students are among a group of 17 winners of the Prime Minister’s Award for Skills Excellence Last year, 467 students were recognised by the Australian Government for outstanding achievement in Vocational Education and Training (VET) through the awarding of Australian Vocational Student Prizes (AVSP). This year, the top AVSP winner in each of […]
Story: Who’s your buddy? Whether your school is in the city, the country or way out bush, you could probably use a buddy. A buddy school, that is. The Buddy School network is part of the Dare to Lead project – an Australian Government funded, national project with a focus on improving educational outcomes for […]
Looking to the future? Look no further. Do you have aspirations to become a leader within your community? Are you a young Indigenous person attending or about to attend secondary school or university? Are you or your family currently living in a remote community? Are you eligible to receive ABSTUDY, Youth Allowance, Assistance for Isolated […]
Story: Honour Roll Students who excelled in Vocational Education and Training (VET) during 2005 have been recognised at the inaugural Australian Vocational Student Awards. The awards have been introduced to highlight the value and importance of VET, and to reward outstanding senior secondary students who have undertaken a VET in Schools program or a School-based […]
Story: The Future Beckons Working out what you want to do when you leave school can be confusing and stressful. But the Australian Government through the Department of Education, Science and Training has created a whole bunch of resources for you to use to help you make those all-important decisions. Job Guide Job Guide is […]
Story: Get Involved! The Australian Government has invested more than $2 billion to improve the educational outcomes of Indigenous students over the next four years, representing an increase of 23.4% over the previous four years. As part of their commitment to Indigenous education, the government has introduced the Parent School Partnership Initiative (PSPI). What about […]
Story: The Future’s Bright Two Indigenous high school students were recently awarded scholarships to the Professor Harry Messel International Science School (ISS). Joel Bruce from Casuarina in the Northern Territory, and Andrew Sampson from Quirindi in NSW attended the two week course at the University of Sydney in July this year. They were the first […]
Story: NAIDOC Magic From the beginning of July, NAIDOC celebrations kicked off around the nation. In every community families, schools and various organisations were celebrating NAIDOC in their own special way. Down in the Lake Illawarra region of New South Wales, Indigenous students from local high schools have come together over the past three years […]
Story: Careers calling Deciding what you want to do with yourself when you leave school can be pretty tough. How do you know what you like? What kind of choices are out there? If only you could get a taste of what a job was like before you committed to it. An initiative funded by […]
NSW public school students will now acknowledge Aboriginal Australians as the original custodians of the land, thanks to new guidelines released by the NSW Department of Education and Training. The guidelines, which will go out to all NSW public schools and TAFEs, propose that the Aboriginal Welcome to Country and Acknowledgement of Country be performed […]
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