Langton: ‘bolt-on’ system a letdown
INDIGENOUS education has been let down by a dysfunctional series of marginal programs, experiments and “bolt-ons”.
Aief
From locked-up to looking up…
FOR the longest, most crucial stretch of Nahdia Noter’s life, role models failed her.
Practical steps closing the gap
IT is too early to relax hard-won alcohol restrictions.
Boarding school moulding for success
AT 17, Arthur Currie is a promising athlete, popular among his peers and looks forward to graduating from high school.
Learning curve from bush to big smoke
SARAH Treacy, daughter of a Kija woman and a non-indigenous father, spent Christmas in Sydney and July out bush.
From Gympie to Garrett’s right hand
WHEN Carlin Anderson describes himself as an all-rounder, it is with typical teenage understatement.
Education opens doors for young Aborigines
AIEF’s boarding school scholarship program for indigenous youngsters is a resounding success.
Passionate about the power of learning
In the small indigneous community where Yvonne O’Neill grew up, the local school catered for students only to Year 10.
Foundation offers future as diplomat
FOUR years ago, Frank Lowah was an apprentice butcher in Cairns, playing rugby union and aiming to become a fisherman.
Business is on board, dollar for dollar
THE chief of the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation says his organisation is a good model for government funding.
Doling out indigenous grants
WASTE and mismanagement only entrenches disadvantage.
Farewell school of hard knocks
TARRYN Brown-Williams’s father died when she was young, after which her mother struggled to raise her eight children.
Libby’s on course for success
IT took Libby Cook-Black moving to Sydney to realise indigenous students could go to uni and get a degree, as white kids did.
Foster child lives her law school dream
AS an Aboriginal girl who was fostered out at just seven days old, Kygim King’s chances of finishing high school were not bright.
BP donates $1m for boarding scheme
AN extra 60 indigenous students will now have the opportunity to attend one of the nation’s prestigious private boarding schools.
A dream job in league of its own
TANIKA Perry was born into a love of rugby league – her father is a passionate league man and sponsors the local team
Lawyer banked on indigenous education
ANDREW Penfold has devoted himself to changing the lives of Australia’s most disadvantaged children.
Indigenous support builds
EDUCATION and employment the antidote to disadvantage.
Blood, sweat, tears a price worth it
THE first thing Jemmason Power noticed about her new private boarding school was its size.
School is missing link in jobs effort
INDIGENOUS employment is constrained by supply, not demand.
Aboriginal kids get insider view
ALMOST 20 years after her grandfather fought for indigenous land rights, Eddie Mabo’s granddaughter has delivered a policy idea to Kevin Rudd.
My School site should help close the gap
MY School should focus specifically on indigenous education.
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