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BATCHELOR INSTITUTE OF INDIGENOUS TERTIARY EDUCATION
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ABOUT US
Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education was established
by the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education Act 1999 as . . .
an educational institution for the tertiary education of Indigenous people of
Australia and the provision of other educational and training programs and
courses, and facilities and resources for research and study, and for related
purposes.
A central task of the Institute is the provision of tertiary
education and training programs which engage students in the development of
appropriate responses to issues of cultural survival, maintenance, renewal and
transformation, within the context of the national and international social,
political and economic order.
INSTITUTE PRINCIPLES: BOTH WAYS and SELF
DETERMINATION
Two principles underpin all aspects of the Institute s life.
First, cultural interaction and cross-cultural learning follow a both ways
philosophy which enables exploration of Indigenous Australian traditions of
knowledge and Western academic disciplinary positions and cultural contexts.
Second, through its work and its courses, Batchelor Institute affirms the
aspiration to self-determination and employment held by Indigenous
Australians.
All Batchelor Institute programs are supported by
appropriate resources and teaching methodologies; and close links between
Batchelor Institute and the Indigenous communities it serves have led to the
development of a mixed mode form of conducting most courses. This mixed
mode for course delivery combines community-based study and research, field
study and supervised work experience with short, intensive residential workshops
at a number of sites, including Batchelor and other regional locations. This
model also responds to the lack of infrastructure, funding and staffing
resources in many of the Northern Territory s remote communities.
OUR
BEGINNINGS
Batchelor Institute began in the mid 1960s on the outskirts of
Darwin as a small annexe of Kormilda College then a government boarding school
for Aboriginal students. The Batchelor annexe provided short programs for
Aboriginal teacher aides and assistants in community schools.
From 1974
these programs were conducted at Batchelor, about 100 km south of Darwin, and in
1982 the institution was named Batchelor College, moving to its present site in
the town. In 1988 the Commonwealth Government recognised Batchelor College as a
Higher Education institution. A second campus was established in Alice Springs
in 1990, reflecting the educational needs of Aboriginal people in Central
Australia. Later that year, annexes were opened in Darwin, Nhulunbuy, Katherine
and Tennant Creek.
An independent evaluation, carried out by a team from
the University of Western Sydney in 1994, recommended that the College move
towards independent university status. As a first step in this direction, the
College was granted agency status within the Northern Territory public sector on
1 April 1995. This was followed on 1 July 1999 by the establishment of the
Institute, with ownership and governance passing to the Batchelor Institute
Council.
BATCHELOR INSTITUTE STRATEGIC PLAN
Batchelor Institute serves
the interests of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in education
and training and, in so doing, contributes to the cultural, social and economic
development of Australia.
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