A Guide to Tertiary Education for Multicultural Communities and Mature Age Students with Disability The National Disability Coordination Officers (NDCO) Regions 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, & 9 are proud to present two FREE Accessible Vodcasts “A Guide to Tertiary Education for Multicultural Communities and Mature Age Students [...]
Supporting Students with ADHD in the Tertiary Sector The tertiary sector presents many challenges for students with ADHD. For those enrolling straight from school, the move requires transition from a highly structured to a relatively unstructured environment. For mature age students, challenges are different, as they are often juggling [...]
Vision Australia's Further Education Bursary 2022 Each year, Vision Australia awards Further Education Bursaries to a select number of students who are blind or have low vision. The bursaries provide adaptive technology to help the students fully participate and succeed in their chosen studies. Assistive technology can eliminate barriers to education [...]
Updated resources from the NDCO program Western Sydney University Get Ready for Uni. Provides information and activities to help young people with disability and their carers get ready for life after school. Find out more about Get Ready for Uni Education to Employment. This webpage supports graduates with disability in navigating the [...]
Capacity Building - Improved Learning This support category is for provision of skills training, advice, assistance with arrangements and orientation to assist a participant moving from school to further education. Transition through School and to Further Education This support item is for the provision of skills training, advice, assistance [...]
Pathways to Tertiary content hub Hear directly from University and TAFE staff, NDCOs, and other industry experts to help you develop your knowledge and skills for a smoother transition into tertiary education. Learn how to disclose your disability, seek out available supports and negotiate reasonable adjustments through specially designed [...]
Best practice career support for students with disability The National Careers Institute has funded a project to investigate best practice career support for students with disability with the aim of establishing the first dedicated national Career Development Learning Hub for students with disability. This study has been approved by the Human [...]
BCA Scholarship Applications are Now Open! Blind Citizens Australia, (BCA) is strongly committed to ensuring people who are blind or vision impaired have opportunities to develop skills which equip them to contribute to the social, economic and cultural life of Australian communities. Funded by the Commonwealth’s Information, Linkages and [...]
Murdoch University Access & Inclusion Team Positions Murdoch University has embarked on an initiative towards being a university that is proactively introducing Murdoch University. As a part of this measure Murdoch is advertising new positions within the Access & Inclusion team that encompass both a student facing component and [...]
An interview with La Trobe's first openly autistic lecturer In 2016, La Trobe Senior Lecturer Dr. Benjamin Habib had an anxiety attack on live national television during a guest appearance as a political analyst. While this highly publicised experience resulted in what Dr. Habib refers to as “the worst [...]
