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Schools appreciate the opportunity to visit the university to ‘see and feel what a university is like’, and the contact with ANU students Description The Australian National University Regional Partnerships Program commenced in 2009 as a pilot program as an important part of the University’s engagement with its surrounding regions. Fifteen schools in the […]
10 March 2014
Aspire UWA supports students with academic potential, but facing significant challenges, to achieve their higher education goals Description Through formalised partnerships with 21 secondary schools in metropolitan Perth and 31 regional and remote schools across Western Australia, the university and school communities are working together to address traditionally low transfer rates to higher education. […]
3 February 2014
The program is flexible in its approach so that we provide, relevant, community-driven and appropriate support and engagement Description James Cook University’s (JCU) Get Into Uni program is a major initiative in regional school and community engagement. It works with approximately 200 secondary and primary schools, and eight community ‘hubs’, to stimulate interest in […]
24 January 2014
Evaluations consistently report the success and relevance of the Regional Schools Outreach Program for the schools it works with, along with a demonstrable change in interest towards higher education Description The Federation University Australia’s Regional Schools Outreach Program (RSOP) works in partnership with 49 regional western Victorian schools, to address the interplay between geographic […]
6 December 2013
Inspire e-Mentoring enables students to explore pathways, understandings and aspirations in learning and career choices Description Flinders University’s Inspire Mentor Program has been raising the aspirations of children and young people from LSES communities for 10 years. The Inspire e-mentoring program, which commenced in 2011, now extends mentoring relationships to students in rural and […]
5 December 2013
The First Year Experience Strategy is the University of New England’s response to strategically managing the multi-faceted issue of student transition and success in the critical first year Description The First Year Experience Strategy demonstrates the University of New England’s (UNE) approach to managing HEPPP funding to achieve sustainable positive outcomes. UNE’s students strongly […]
4 December 2013
L-R: RREAC Executive Officer Emmy Terry; NCSEHE Director Professor Sue Trinidad; Great Southern Development Commission CEO Bruce Manning and RREAC Chair Hon. Brian Ellis, MLC Member for the Agricultural Region The Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council recently spent three days touring the Great Southern region, in order to gain insight and feedback into the […]
14 September 2013