Rural and regional students have the same right to a job outcome as metropolitan students, but don’t always get the same opportunities. The tyranny of distance creates a series of compounding obstacles for remote students.
Commonwealth Government’s Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Program (HEPPP).
The program was supported by strategic industry partner Cisco and the broader National Industry Innovation Network (NIIN) and was living proof that positive change does not have to involve multi-million dollar budgets and protracted timeframes. In less than 12 months the team was able to design, develop and deliver interventions that will go a long way towards helping to inform students’ aspiration when it comes to studying digital technology but also to build their capability and confidence when it comes to learning through technology.
