Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students took their first steps towards tertiary education with the commencement of the Preparation for Tertiary Success (PTS) program at the Desert Peoples Centre. The 2017 intake for Alice Springs includes seventeen Indigenous students fr

“Learning about both-ways really stood out for me.  At school I kept my culture to myself as I was scared of being judged.  In PTS I fitted in and with the both-ways approach I was encouraged to share and it was like my knowledge was unlocked from within me.  The oral presentations he

“I wanted to get my skills up to go to uni as I didn’t finish Year 12.  I didn’t know what an essay was.  Starting PTS I was scared.  It was the first time I had travelled by myself and it was my first time out of Queensland.” “The thing I like about PTS is that you are not treated li

“A flyer about the ACIKE course came through my work.  I liked the sound of the ACIKE nursing course so I applied straight away.  The Academic Advisors told me that I would need to do the PTS course first.  I think that was the best thing for me because of what PTS gave me.” “PTS help

Photo credit: Steve Gumerungi Hodder-Watt Indigenous students from New South Wales are travelling to the Northern Territory to turn their academic dreams into reality thanks to a program designed to prepare them for success at university. Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Edu

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students from around 50 communities from the Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia will gather to receive their formal qualifications at the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education graduation ceremony t

Over 300 families and representatives from organisations in Alice Springs and surrounding communities joined the knowledge building interactive activities at the Desert Knowledge Precinct (DKP) at the South Stuart Highway, opposite Yirara College, Alice Springs, Northern Territory for

Indigenous students from around the country met at the Desert Peoples Centre (DPC) in Alice Springs last week for a workshop on Writing for Film, a unit in the Diploma in Creative Indigenous Writing offered through the Australian Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Education (ACIKE).

PTS Presenters at the National Native Title Conference, from left: Andrew Clements, Amelia Kuonth-Monks, Vyyleah Waia-Gibia (standing) and Kathryn Cochrane Australia’s largest Indigenous policy gathering, the annual National Native Title Conference, was held in Alice Springs last week

On 6 June 2013 Batchelor Institute hosted the SANTPEN (South Australia Northern Territory Promotion of Excellence Network) Symposium at ACIKE on the Casuarina campus in Darwin. SANTPEN commenced in late 2011 through an Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) initiative. With a