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Curtin University has five regional scholarships available for Western Australian students courtesy of the UniReady Enabling Program. UniReady aims to help students who have not met Curtin’s minimum ATAR score to enrol into Health Sciences, Humanities, and Curtin Business School undergraduate courses. A one semester program, UniReady consists of four units designed to help future […]
24 September 2013
18 September 2013
‘Do traditional culture and identity promote the wellbeing of Indigenous Australians? Evidence from the 2008 NATSISS’ EXTRACT This chapter reports results from one of several ongoing avenues of investigation into the relationship between Indigenous Australians’ attachment to traditional culture and their socioeconomic outcomes and wellbeing. In an analysis of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) […]
18 September 2013
‘The link between Indigenous culture and wellbeing: Qualitative evidence for Australian Aboriginal peoples’, a discussion paper prepared for The Centre for Labour Market Research and School of Economics and Finance Curtin University by Dr Simon Colquhoun and Dr Alfred Michael Dockery. ABSTRACT Evidence from both the international and Australian literature suggests that the wellbeing of […]
17 September 2013
17 September 2013
Thesis written by Dr Caroline Gopalkrishnan ABSTRACT Today, the articulation of identities has significant and even dire consequences for many people living in different parts of the world. In Australia, too, the matter of what it means to be ethnic, indigenous, non-indigenous, seeking asylum or mixed-race is highly contested, controversial and for some groups of […]
16 September 2013
A summary of a project commissioned by the former Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education and conducted by the University of Canberra and Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, discussed at the Equity in Higher Education Policy Forum held 30 April and 1 May 2013 in Sydney. CONTEXT To fulfil its […]
16 September 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
A student from AIME’s Curtin University program has made it into the top 100 in AIME’s The Other Election campaign, dedicated to finding Australia’s first Indigenous Prime Minister. Kearyn Cox, a year 11 student from Guildford Grammar School in Western Australia, is currently sitting at 7th place nationally. Should Kearyn win enough votes this week […]
14 September 2013
3 September 2013