An agreement between Wyong Coal and Guringai Tribal Link Aboriginal Corporation (Guringai TLAC) is delivering increased educational opportunities for the NSW Central Coast indigenous community, with the first of four tertiary scholarships being announced. Rachel […]
The Cape York Girl Academy has welcomed its first teenage students – and their babies – in an Australian first that brings young Indigenous mums back into the classroom. The school at Wangetti, north of […]
The University of Newcastle has launch its first crowdfunding campaign to create an Indigenous Science Communication scholarship. The scholarship will enable an Indigenous university student to work with its highly successful Science Technology Engineering Mathematics (STEM) […]
One of the nation’s most enterprising millennials, Jack Manning Bancroft, will be made an Honorary Doctor of the University of South Australia this week in recognition of his highly successful national program to improve educational […]
Indigenous students from the NSW rural community of Wellington have been the first to take part in the 2016 Flint Program, an initiative developed by IDX in partnership with the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence and […]
A unique accelerator program aimed at kick-starting the careers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander academics at the University of Sydney is now underway, with five inaugural fellows embarking on cutting-edge research. Former NRL star […]
Mining giant FMG has unveiled its first Vocational Training and Employment Centre (VTEC) graduates of 2016, with 11 of them bound for the company’s remote Cloudbreak mine in WA’s Pilbara. And not unusually, more than […]
Australian Catholic University’s first Indigenous PhD staff scholarship holder, Dr Bindi Bennett, has graduated at a ceremony in Sydney. Dr Bennett, one of five recipients of ACU’s Indigenous Staff Research Scholarships, completed her thesis, Developing […]
Dr Kathryn Gilbey has won a 2016 Fulbright Scholarship to the US, where she will develop collaborations with Chicana women and other First Nation’s women. The scholarship is awarded by Australian-American Fulbright Commission to promote […]
NATIONAL INDIGENOUS TIMES 2018