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PhD successes at Batchelor Graduation

(l-r) PhD students Joe Fraser, Robyn Ober, Majon Williamson-Kefu June is always an exciting time of the year, with many Indigenous students from all over the Territory, and in some instances across the country. This year we even have a Hawaii-based student. Students graduating from th
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Congratulations Jennetta

(l-r) Jennetta Quinn Bates, Early Childhood Lecturer Melinda Noe, co-host Peter Miller Jennetta Quinn Bates a CUA41215 Cert IV Screen and Media student from BIITE has just landed herself a job with the ABC working out of the Alice Springs Bureau. Jennetta will be taking up the positio
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Bilingual Education Matters

Brenda Muthamuluwuy teaching Gupapuyŋu In the continuing tradition of supporting the teaching of Indigenous Languages in schools, several staff from Batchelor Institute recently co-facilitated a 3-day professional development workshop in Darwin. On the 15th October, 18 people from var
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Because of her I can – Innabaarn returned home

Alison Nannup and the cover of Alice Nannup’s Book Alison Nannup, a Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education student, has received the exciting news that her poem was recognised in this year’s ‘Poetry on the Move: Inhabiting Language’ festival. On Sunday 16th September it
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Academic honoured with Indigenous doctorate

Caption: From left: Dr Wendy Ludwig, Batchelor Institute Council Chair Professor Mark Rose and WINU Professor Boni Robertson. Story: Charles Darwin University Image: Batchelor Institute. A Charles Darwin University academic has become the first Territorian to be conferred with an hono
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Territory’s rising star balancing study with elite sport

Batchelor Institute student Demitrice Doomadgee (21) is busy balancing her nursing studies with being an elite sportswoman. The aspiring nurse and midwife was selected to play Rugby League for the Northern Territory Titans after competing in a Rugby 7s competition at the beginning of
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Sam’s novel win

Congratulations to Sam Carmody for winning this year’s Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction for his first novel, The Windy Season. The prize is open to to first and second novels. The prize is run by the Melbourne bookshops and Sam receives $3000. Guest judge Christos Tsiol
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Cambodian academics visit Batchelor

Batchelor Institute recently hosted a visiting group of 15 Cambodian academics from the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP) through our partnership with Charles Darwin University. The visit formed part of a seven-week long Australia Awards Fellowship program that delivered training
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Culture celebrated at NT Graduation

The Djilpin Arts dancers at the Batchelor Graduation Ceremony 2017   The achievements of students from the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education were celebrated at the year’s largest graduation ceremony on June 15th 2017. 313 individual graduates had 350 awar
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Higher Degree Masterclass comes to Batchelor

  The Office of Elder Academic and Cultural Leadership (OEACL) offers seminars that merge academic disciplines with cultural engagement to reflect and capture the essence of the Batchelor Institute experience and ideology. As a part of this year’s seminar series, OEACL rece
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