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Pathways for Indigenous People in Vocational Education,
Training, Employment and Business
The Pathways project is focusing on the training and employment
needs of the Indigenous community in the New England region.
The project is being managed by Regional Extended Family Services
(REFS), a Registered Training Organisation specialising in
community services.
The project is linking communities across the New England
region and trialling new ways of integrating training for
Indigenous people with employment opportunities created through
local business, government and community regional development
initiatives.
The main elements of the project are the creation of a new
nationally recognised management course, a new Indigenous
Business Enterprise and a sponsorship and mentoring program
for course participants.
Integrated into all Pathways courses are units in cultural
and community awareness and Indigenous therapies. These units,
called the Bookoola modules, provide an Indigenous cultural
framework in which all learning takes place. Articulation
into diploma and degree courses offered by three regional
universities has been negotiated and the Department of Education
and Training has agreed to use several modules in senior high
schools across the New England region. The course was accredited
by the Vocational Education and Training Accreditation Board
in 2002.
An Indigenous Business Enterprise has also been established
as part of the Pathways project to improve links between training
and employment for course participants. It is expected to provide direct
employment and structured workplacement for participants,
as well as pathways to employment and business opportunities.
The project has been completed
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National Manager REFS Bruce Argyle (L) and
BVET Chairman Bert Evans, AO present Pathways program participants
Robert Vale and Amanda Francis with certificates of achievement
during the Board's visit to Armidale in 2002.
View the final report of the project.
For more information about the Armidale Indigenous Pathways
project, contact Raj Narchal on
(02) 9561 1143 or email raj.narchal@det.nsw.edu.au
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