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Aboriginal and Islander Tertiary Students as Creators of Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

Helen McDonald
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James Cook University of North Queensland currently offers an affirmative action program enabling Aboriginal and Islander people to enter teacher education programs. This program - the Aboriginal and Islander Teacher Education Program (AITEP) - began in 1977 at Townsville College of Advanced Education, now amalgamated with the university. In July 1987, there were about 130 undergraduate students enrolled in teacher education programs, having entered the university through AITEP. A similar program in community welfare now operates with over 20 students enrolled. Currently there are possibly around seven Aboriginal or Islander undergraduates who gained direct entry to university and four graduate students, including three who began their undergraduate studies through AITEP.

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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 15 , Issue 5 , November 1987 , pp. 34 - 44
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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