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The Queensland Widening Participation Consortium Case Studies 2011–2015 The Queensland Widening Participation Consortium Consortium Participation Queensland Widening The Case Studies 2011–2015 Case Studies The Queensland Widening Participation Consortium Case Studies 2011–2015 Acknowledgments The Consortium acknowledges the contribution of the Australian Government Department of Education and Training Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Program which funded the projects featured in this publication. Thank you to all Consortium University partners (Australian Catholic University, Central Queensland University, Griffith University, James Cook University, Queensland University of Technology, The University of Queensland, University of Southern Queensland and University of the Sunshine Coast) and their Widening Participation Working Group representatives who have overseen development and implementation of these projects since 2009. A particular thank you to Mary Kelly, QUT Equity Director and Chair of the Working Group, who has provided strong leadership and guidance to the Consortium. Also thank you to Geoffrey Mitchell, Widening Participation Project Manager who has provided coordination of joint Consortium activities including this publication. Delivery of this publication has also been assisted by an editorial committee consisting of Gabrielle O’Brien (QUT), Ann Stewart (USC), Melinda Mann-Yasso (CQU), and Sharlene Gordon (USQ). The Consortium also acknowledges Queensland Department of Education and Training for their support and for providing access to schools and institutes across the State. The case studies illustrated in this publication are only a small sample of the outreach work being undertaken throughout the State. For more information on Queensland’s Widening Tertiary Participation activities contact [email protected]. Credits Editing: Melissa Jeffreys Graphic Design: Belinda Davis, remarkabel.com Printing: Zink Print Table of Contents Project Overview ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 2 Introduction ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................4 Map of Queensland showing Regions and Universities ...................................................................................................................................9 ACU: Playing with Numbers ................................................................................................................................................................................................11 ACU: Uni Step-Up: early access to tertiary study.............................................................................................................................................15 CQU: Widening Participation: a whole school approach .......................................................................................................................... 19 CQU: The Hero’s Journey .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 23 CQU: ‘Now I have had this experience I am looking at studying…’ ...................................................................................................27 GU: Launch into Life at Logan ......................................................................................................................................................................................31 GU: Engaging parents in career conversations with their children ...............................................................................................37 JCU: Charters Towers Education Hub: a partnership between James Cook University, Charters Towers Regional Council and secondary schools in Charters Towers ....................................................... 41 JCU: James Cook University Partnerships: engagement through Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander reference groups ........................................................................................................................................................................................................45 QUT: Explore Uni .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................49 QUT: Career Counselling and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities ............................................................ 53 UQ: Uni – Yes I Can! An initiative to engage secondary school students in tertiary education .........................57 UQ: Motivating Indigenous Students to Succeed .........................................................................................................................................61 USQ: USQ’s Intensive Tertiary Preparation Program: a pathway to university for Year 12 leavers........................65 USQ: DARE: Dream Aspire Reach and Experience .......................................................................................................................................69 USQ: Beyond Year 10 Camp: career development for rural and remote students ..............................................................73 USC: My Tertiary Education Day (MyTED): encouraging primary school students to consider tertiary education opportunities .....................................................................................................................................................................77 USC: Here there be no dragons: establishing pathways to tertiary education through creative practice .......81 USC: Developing Digital Literacies .............................................................................................................................................................................85 1 Project Overview Eight universities form Queensland’s Widening Tertiary Participation Consortium, which is focused on improving the participation of low socio-economic background and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in tertiary study. Between 2011 and 2015 the Consortium collaborated on School Outreach and Indigenous Engagement Projects funded through two Australian Government Higher Education Participation and Partnership Program grants. This overview of Consortium universities and project activities provides a context for the case-studies featured in this publication. School Outreach Indigenous Engagement Institution Project Project Indigenous-focused school and ACU offered a suite of programs community events included to primary and secondary campus visits, an Indigenous schools in the Northern games day and an Indigenous Brisbane suburbs (shared dinner to engage with school with QUT). See Playing with students and the wider Numbers and Uni Step Up. community. CQUniversity undertook CQUniversity provided a staged two projects: Community delivery of activities to students Aspirations Program (CAP-ED) from Year 5 to Year 12 in the focusing on delivery of small Central Queensland, Bundaberg community based learning and North Burnett regions. See projects; and Correctional Partnerships: a whole school Centre Undergraduate Pathways approach, and The Hero’s (CUPS) exploring undergraduate Journey. pathway development for incarcerated people. Griffith extended its pre- The Gumurrii Student Support existing Uni-Reach program to Unit delivered short community target all year levels from Year based pre-tertiary learning 6 to Year 12 in Brisbane, Logan, modules to Gold Coast, Inala, Redlands and Gold Coast Logan and Moreton Bay schools. See Launch into Life at island communities and has Logan and Engaging parents in established a homework centre career conversations. on the Gold Coast. 2 JCU provided outreach and JCU’s extensive engagement engagement with schools in the with schools, communities and North Queensland and Far North organisations across North Queensland regions including and Far North Queensland school visits, camps and resource included engagement through development. See Charters regional hubs. See James Cook Towers Education Hub. University Partnerships. QUT’s Explore Uni program QUT provided Indigenous provided on-campus focused career counselling experiences to primary and services in the Moreton Bay secondary schools from north region as well as tertiary Brisbane and Caboolture, preparation support and school complementing other in-school outreach activities. and community activities. Community engagement included an Indigenous UQ provided in-school and on- Youth Sports Program, youth campus activities for secondary leadership program, InspireU schools in the Ipswich and camps and the Deadly Choices Lockyer Valley region through Pathways to Success program. their Uni – Yes I Can! program. See Motivating Indigenous Students to Succeed. USQ provided a range of USQ worked with local programs to partner schools communities and schools to in the Darling Downs, South deliver the DARE mentoring West and Fraser Coast schools. program as well as Indigenous See Beyond Year 10 Camp and Connections motivational Tertiary Preparation Program events in Toowoomba, Intensive Pathway. Springfield
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