My Story — Student Voice: Karlie James
8 October 2019
Karlie James has had an enduring dream to study medicine, one that has not been shaken despite considerable setbacks. When her young son fell ill, Karlie’s career path took on ...
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8 October 2019
Karlie James has had an enduring dream to study medicine, one that has not been shaken despite considerable setbacks. When her young son fell ill, Karlie’s career path took on ...
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26 June 2019
Arts/Law student Hannah Gandy has been widely commended for academic and personal achievements unprecedented among her peers, and for her commitment to helping students who ...
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6 June 2019
Ruby Walsh is a University of Wollongong Australia (UOW) graduate, now working in Wagga Wagga in a community engagement role in the charity sector. Going to university for ...
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14 May 2019
Mitchell Ha is a Vietnamese-Australian graduate of the University of Sydney and first-year English high school teacher. It was through the financial and social support of The ...
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7 March 2019
The Road Less Travelled Written by Jane Britt February 2019 This feature was first published by the Australian Disability Clearinghouse on Education and Training (ADCET). The ...
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19 November 2018
Overcoming the challenges of disability: A creative path to success “My beautiful little baby girl was born with twisted feet.” This is the last line of a poem my mother wrote ...
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1 November 2018
TJ Hogan, a member of the traveller community in Ireland, has thrived in higher education with support around his dyslexia. I am a member of the Traveller Community and a ...
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19 October 2018
Tahlia Danks grew up in a low socioeconomic suburb in Sydney’s south west, and is the first in her family to consider attending university after having participated in the ...
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29 September 2018
Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) student Róisín Ormond refused to let her hearing impairment stand in the way of higher education study. I am currently in my second year ...
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3 September 2018
Advocating for opportunity beyond out-of-home care When I was a child, attending university was not something I viewed as achievable. In my home it was mentioned in the same ...
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