More than 20 Indigenous students who have completed Â鶹ֱ²¥\u2019s Centre for Aboriginal Studies\u2019 (CAS) bridging courses last week graduated in a ceremony at Curtin\u2019s Bentley Campus.<\/p>\n
Nine students from the Aboriginal Bridging Course and 11 from the Indigenous Tertiary Enabling Course are now able to apply for a range of mainstream university courses, from social work and information technology to business and nursing.<\/p>\n
Ernie Noble, 49, who has been in a wheelchair since he was 19 after an accident left him a\u00a0 quadriplegic, said after finishing the Aboriginal Bridging Course, he now planned to apply to study graphic design at Curtin.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am as pleased as punch to graduate from the course,\u201d Mr Noble said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would love a job in web design so I can use my creativity and applying for the graphic design course is my next step.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Rivervale resident said he had heard about the course through friends, and decided to enrol because he felt it would open doors for job opportunities.<\/p>\n
Both the Aboriginal Bridging Course and Indigenous Tertiary Enabling Course were established in 1976 and have since helped hundreds of Aboriginal students enter university.<\/p>\n
Each course is full-time, with the Aboriginal Bridging Course taking one year to complete and the Indigenous Tertiary Enabling Course taking six months.<\/p>\n
Contacts: More than 20 Indigenous students who have completed Â鶹ֱ²¥\u2019s Centre for Aboriginal Studies\u2019 (CAS) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4275,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-17845","media-release","type-media-release","status-publish","hentry","category-campus-and-global-community"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":false,"credits":{"author":"","photographer":"","media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}}},"featured_image":false,"author_meta":{"first_name":"Curtin","last_name":"University","display_name":"Â鶹ֱ²¥"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/17845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/media-release"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/17845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17845"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=17845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBonnie Ripper, Public Relations, Â鶹ֱ²¥
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