Koorie Education 

& Engagement

NAIDOC WEEK

NIKERI Institute - Deakin University

On Thursday 20 June, 11 Senior Koorie students road tripped down to the other side of the bay to visit Deakin Uni Waurn Ponds campus to meet with the NIKERI Institute.

The National Indigenous Knowledges Education Research Innovation (NIKERI) Institute has a proud 35-year history of supporting over 1000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People through community-based education programs.

The students were introduced with the NIKERI Institute, were students can apply to gain a fully accredited Deakin degree while learning in a space with shared cultural values and belief systems. NIKERI's community based delivery model means students have several on-campus week-long intensives throughout the year at the NIKERI Institute then continue your studies online at home. Deakin cover all transport to Deakin for the week-long intensives and back home again. Deakin also supply all of the accommodation and meals at their Kitjarra Residences (which we toured). 

This excursion was a chance to learn more about NIKERI, a tour of NIKERI, of the Deakin campus, see what it’s like to be part of Deakin, how to apply to NIKERI and which courses students can do, scholarship opportunities and extracurricular activities, myth busting about uni (how hard it is, how much it costs, who can do it, how “smart” you need to be) and what cultural supports are available to students.

UPCOMING DATES

• NAIDOC Week - 7/7 - 14/7
• EMC Koorie student NAIDOC project - photography exhibition launch @ Nairm Marr Djambana's NAIDOC event - 8/7
• Koorie Academy Basketball workshop - 18/7
• First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria workshop - 1/8