The University of Divinity's council has reviewed its 2024-26 budget projections and decided its School of Indigenous Studies is "not financially sustainable in the current higher education environment." The collegiate university is dedicated to teaching and researching spiritual and Christian ...
More »$5.9m invested into post-grad scholarship for Indigenous cancer research
Expressions of interest are now open for Aurora Education Foundation's First Nations Cancer Scholarship, a $5.9 million investment to support Indigenous health professionals and researchers complete postgraduate study or research in a cancer-related field. The collaboration, between the Albanese government, ...
More »‘Making sense of the land by looking at the sky:’ Indigenous students at NASA
Six Indigenous students from Monash University's National Indigenous Space Academy (NISA) are completing a 10-week internship at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California. Any First Nation student completing a science, technology, engineering or maths degree (STEM) in an Australian ...
More »USC pledges to close the gap
The University of the Sunshine Coast will host a Close the Gap event today (Thursday), as a call for action to address disadvantage among Indigenous Australians. Launched in 2008, Close the Gap day is a national campaign to boost the ...
More »Save Indigenous students from funding freeze: UA
Education professionals this week issued an urgent plea to the government to quarantine university places for Indigenous students against the current funding freeze. The request comes from The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Higher Education Consortium, whose members say ...
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