Widening participation

Explore Uni

We invite students from Year 6 to 12 to come onto campus and participate in Explore Uni days, which include a range of talks and hands-on activities to dispel myths about university.

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Explore Uni camp

Our Year 11 and 12 Explore Uni camp is a fully funded experience, offered to select schools. Students visit QUT campuses and events, participate in interactive activities, and get the information they need to make decisions for when they finish school.

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Pasifika student journeys to higher education

Student Ambassadors from Pasifika backgrounds talk about why they chose a university pathway. Despite the challenges and balancing study, work and family life, these proud Pasifika students are finding success at university and share their stories.

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Inspiring (and real) role models

Our programs are run by current university students who come from a variety of pathways and have similar backgrounds to students from our partner schools.

Practical, hands-on learning

Interactive activities engage students and allow them to discover for themselves that tertiary study is an option.

Strong curriculum connections

Our programs cover a variety of curriculum-connected activities that showcase different study and career outcomes.

Careers guidance and pathways mapping

Our careers team has services and resources to suit students at every stage of their career development journey.

Access programs and scholarships

Information about alternative entry pathways and financial support is embedded in all of our programs.

Partnerships with schools, families and communities

We work collaboratively with families, schools and communities, and are led by their knowledge and expertise.

Our programs

Workshops and events

On-campus or in-school experiences for your students.

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Explore Uni

A whole day, on-campus program delivered by our Explore Uni team.

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Careers and pathways

Our careers team provides a range of services to support guidance officers, teachers, students and parents in the Caboolture region.

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Second chance learners

Our adult learner social inclusion program aims to encourage, inform and assist learners who:

haven't completed Year 12
completed high school a long time ago or in another country.

We collaborate on this with Griffith University and TAFE Queensland to deliver workshops and support to students who need help to pursue their chosen career path. Our initiatives see us work with both the general public and targeted groups, including those who speak English as an additional language.

We deliver a range of initiatives including:

job seeker and resume workshops
career planning
advice about pathways to study.

We also offer a number of $600 Adult Learner Encouragement Bursaries and QUT Encouragement Scholarships for fee payment to students at partnering institutions.

Adult Learner Encouragement Bursaries

These $600 bursaries are available to people who enrol in the Certificate IV in Adult Tertiary Preparation at TAFE Queensland Southbank campus or Coorparoo Centre for Continuing Secondary Education.

QUT provides the bursaries to low-income students to assist with education expenses and encourage them to complete their studies and go on to further study at TAFE or university.

Applications are now open, and close on 27 April 2020.

Download the application form for TAFE Queensland Southbank students (PDF file, 750.9 KB)
Download the application form for Coorparoo CCSE students

QUT Encouragement Scholarships

The scholarships are available to TAFE Caboolture Adult Tertiary Preparation students experiencing financial hardship. Recipients must pay for the first unit of their study, and up to 8 subsequent units will be paid for by the scholarship.

For more information, contact TAFE Queensland Caboolture.

How we got here

QUT has a long-standing commitment to widening participation.

We are also the lead institution for the Queensland Statewide Consortium, a collaboration of eight public universities and the Department of Education to undertake a range of widening participation activities.

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Student stories

Our programs are led by QUT students with similar backgrounds to students from our partner schools.

Many of them participated in our programs as school students and have been inspired by that experience to become student ambassadors themselves.

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Resources

For schools

Career Conversations

These resources are intended to complement Explore Uni on-campus days but can be used independently. They provide a framework for conversations with students exploring the concept of work, its relevance to individuals and communities and the place of universities and other educational institutions.