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Pearl Duncan Teaching Scholarship -Secondary school graduates

If you identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and are studying or intend to study an undergraduate or postgraduate teacher qualification, our Pearl Duncan Teaching Scholarship might be right for you. So we can encourage and support our aspiring teachers, this scholarship provides ...

$40000 approx. total

4 Years

Closed

Close: 13/12/2024 2024-12-13T00:00:00+00:00

Indigenous Accommodation Scholarship

La Trobe understand how important access to safe, secure and affordable housing is for their students. This scholarship offers a guaranteed place in their accommodation facilities across all of the campuses, as well as a scholarship that will cover any gap left after Rent Assistance. 

Value may vary

No Duration

VIC

Closed

Open: 23/08/2023 2023-08-23T00:00:00+00:00

Close: 31/12/2024 2024-12-31T00:00:00+00:00

Dennis McDermott Research Scholarships

These scholarships will be awarded to Indigenous students of expectional research promise to undertake a higher degree by research at La Trobe. This scholarship is awarded alongside the Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship, which provides a stipend, Offset and Allowance.   These a...

$44000 approx. total

Duration of the Program

VIC

Closed

Open: 15/11/2022 2022-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

Close: 31/12/2024 2024-12-31T00:00:00+00:00

CPA Australia Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Scholarships

"CPA Australia offers up to five scholarships annually for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. The scholarship will assist recipients to meet the educational requirements needed to attain CPA status. Scholarship recipients will be exempt from all CPA Program subject fees and a full thre...

Value may vary

3 Years

5 scholarships offered

Open

Open: 01/01/2024 2024-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Close: 31/12/2024 2024-12-31T00:00:00+00:00

Open: 01/01/2025 2025-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Close: 31/12/2025 2025-12-31T00:00:00+00:00

SHQ Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Medical Education Scholarship

SHQ recognises that to achieve health equality more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are needed in the health workforce. To work towards this SHQ would like to offer a scholarship to an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Doctor and nurse per year to participate in one of our Certif...

$3000 approx. total

1 Year

2 scholarships offered

WA

Closed

Close: 31/12/2024 2024-12-31T00:00:00+00:00

Close: 31/12/2025 2025-12-31T00:00:00+00:00

Lochrie Indigenous Australian Education Scholarship

This scholarship supports Indigenous Australian students in the Master of Teaching or undertaking research in Indigenous Education, with up to $6000 per year over the two-year duration of the course

$12000 approx. total

Duration of the Program

1 scholarship offered

VIC

Closed

Open: 01/10/2024 2024-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

Close: 03/01/2025 2025-01-03T00:00:00+00:00

Ella Schroder Indigenous Residential Scholarship

Mr Schroder, studied at Armidale Teachers’ College and gained BA (Honours) and MA degrees from UNE by distance education. His interest in Indigenous students began in the 1960s when he was teaching Aboriginal students in Armidale. He has also spent time in Indigenous communities in the Northern T...

$40000 approx. total

4 Years

1 scholarship offered

NSW

Closed

Close: 05/01/2025 2025-01-05T00:00:00+00:00

Indigenous Master of Psychology Scholarship

Financial resources are a major issues impacting tertiary study for Indigenous students. This contributes to the chronic under-representation of Indigenous students in postgraduate clinical psychology programs that, in turn, results in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander psychologists making up...

$30000 approx. total

2 Years

NSW

Closed

Close: 05/01/2025 2025-01-05T00:00:00+00:00

DPIE Aboriginal Planning Scholarship

The Planning & Assessment division within the Department of Planning, Industry and Environment (DPIE) has developed the first Aboriginal Scholarship Planning Program. This scholarship program will create a pathway to support Aboriginal planning students to commence their career with D...

$12500 approx. total

No Duration

2 scholarships offered

NSW

Closed

Close: 05/01/2025 2025-01-05T00:00:00+00:00

Oorala Wellbeing Scholarship

The Oorala Aboriginal Centre in collaboration with UNE's Student Accessibility and Wellbeing Office, developed the Oorala Wellbeing Scholarship. They share a vision to improve access to the UNE experience for everyone, regardless of their background or current situation.   The Access...

$500 approx. total

1 Semester

10 scholarships offered

NSW

Closed

Close: 05/01/2025 2025-01-05T00:00:00+00:00

Indigenous Commonwealth Accommodation Scholarship

This Scholarship is funded by the Australian Government under the Indigenous Student Success Program. It is valued at $9,000 (pro-rata for part-time) The purpose of the Commonwealth Education Costs Scholarships is to widen participation in higher education on campus for Aboriginal and Torres St...

$36000 approx. total

Duration of the Program

20 scholarships offered

NSW

Closed

Close: 05/01/2025 2025-01-05T00:00:00+00:00

Close: 02/03/2025 2025-03-02T00:00:00+00:00

Mary MacKillop Today First Nations Tertiary Scholarship

Mary MacKillop believed in the power of education to transform lives. In her legacy the Sisters of Saint Joseph have continued to empower individuals and communities by providing access to education. Since 1998 tertiary scholarships for the First Nation Peoples of the lands in which we live have ...

$17500 approx. total

4 Years

VIC

Closed

Open: 05/09/2024 2024-09-05T00:00:00+00:00

Close: 07/01/2025 2025-01-07T00:00:00+00:00

Bertalli Family Foundation Indigenous Nursing Scholarship

The Bertalli Family Foundation would like to create a transformational scholarship program for Indigenous nurses to change lives. This will enable nurses to deliver higher quality, culturally appropriate health care services 

$37500 approx. total

3 Years

VIC

Closed

Open: 05/09/2024 2024-09-05T00:00:00+00:00

Close: 07/01/2025 2025-01-07T00:00:00+00:00

Frances Feenstra Psychology Scholarship

People Measures endeavours to encourage Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students to consider organisational psychology as a career. 

$5000 approx. total

1 Year

VIC

Closed

Open: 05/09/2024 2024-09-05T00:00:00+00:00

Close: 07/01/2025 2025-01-07T00:00:00+00:00

FASS Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Coursework Scholarship

This scholarship provides financial assistance to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students commencing a coursework degree in the Faculty in Arts and Social Sciences.    The value is $8,500 per annum for up to 4 years.

$34000 approx. total

4 Years

NSW

Closed

Open: 06/12/2024 2024-12-06T00:00:00+00:00

Close: 08/01/2025 2025-01-08T00:00:00+00:00

North Queensland Bulk Ports Marine Science Scholarship

A core value of the JCU/NQBP partnership is to provide the opportunity for high school students to study marine science at JCU. The funding will allow students to focus on achieving the most from their time with JCU, in addition to working closely with JCU and NQBP staff, as part of a mentorship ...

$15000 approx. total

3 Years

2 scholarships offered

QLD

Closed

Open: 01/10/2024 2024-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

Close: 10/01/2025 2025-01-10T00:00:00+00:00

Ross Spark and John Breinl Memorial Grants Program

This scholarship is named after: Professor Ross Spark (1954-2013) who was the Head of the School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences at James Cook University Cairns in 2011 until the time of his death in 2013. He is remembered for the passion and expertise he had in he...

$2000 approx. total

1 Semester

QLD

Closed

Open: 01/10/2024 2024-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

Close: 10/01/2025 2025-01-10T00:00:00+00:00

Thelma Myers Memorial Indigenous Nursing Scholarship

Established in 2003 by Carolyn Dixon, a psychiatric mental-health nurse, in memory of her mother Thelma Myers. The purpose of the scholarship is to encourage and facilitate Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander nurses and midwives to continue their studies at a postgraduate level. T...

$5000 approx. total

1 Year

QLD

Closed

Open: 01/10/2024 2024-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

Close: 10/01/2025 2025-01-10T00:00:00+00:00

Inclusion Works Bursary

This Bursary is to promote community inclusion excellence by supporting participation of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students in social work field education. 

$1000 approx. total

1 Year

3 scholarships offered

QLD

Closed

Open: 01/10/2024 2024-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

Close: 10/01/2025 2025-01-10T00:00:00+00:00

Amuthan Memorial Indigenous Scholarship

This scholarship was established in honour of Amuthan Annamalai, a Year 6 medical student at JCU who passed away in 2013.  He was passionate about enabling Indigenous Australians to access tertiary education and his father, who established this scholarship, hopes this scholarship will g...

$25000 approx. total

Duration of the Program

QLD

Closed

Open: 01/10/2024 2024-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

Close: 10/01/2025 2025-01-10T00:00:00+00:00