Indigenous

Within Australia, there are approximately 1,500 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander identifying students, constituting less than 0.5% of total postgraduate enrolment. This lies substantially below the 2.2% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander representation within the wider community. These students are broadly distributed across Australia’s 39 Universities and Batchelor Institute for Indigenous Tertiary Education.

This position is responsible for the support of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Postgraduate Coursework (PGCW) Students at ANU.

Location: Jabal Indigenous Higher Education Centre, Division of Registrar & Student Services, ANU Central Services
Canberra/ACT
Term of Contract Permanent
Grade ANU Officer Grade 6/7 (Administration)
Salary Package $62,110 - $71,937 pa plus 17% superannuation
Closing Date 27 December 2010
Position Overview

ACU has a long-standing commitment to full participation of Indigenous Australians in higher education and more broadly in Australian society, and a record of outstanding access and participation rates for Indigenous students. Further, with the establishment of the Centre for Indigenous Education and Research, the breadth and depth of the University’s Indigenous research is growing impressively.

[Below is an edited version of the information available on the DIISR website].

We are seeking an enthusiastic person who is dedicated to the advancement of education for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

The Student Support Officer will contribute to the success of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students across all campuses of the University of Adelaide (North Terrace, Roseworthy and Waite) by developing and implementing a broad range of strategies designed to encourage students to attend University.

•Continuing, Full time (2 x positions)
•HEW General Level 6 - $66,618 – 72,129 (Incl. Super.)
•Albury-Wodonga or Bathurst or Dubbo or Orange or Wagga Wagga

The School of English, Media Studies and Art History (EMSAH) is a vibrant interdisciplinary academic community and offers considerable scope to cultivate approaches to research, teaching and learning informed by the emerging discipline of Indigenous Knowledge. We have recently commenced a pilot project to embed Indigenous Knowledge across the School’s research and teaching activities ahead of a major outreach project to Indigenous stakeholders.

The Centre for Design (CfD), RMIT University is offering three PhD students to undertake a research project "More than a roof overhead: Meeting the Need for a Sustainable Housing System in Remote Indigenous Communities". The research takes a broad, whole-of-system and interdisciplinary approach in research on the delivery and management of remote Indigenous housing, where the key challenge is to design, build and manage housing as an integrated and sustainable system.