Batchelor Institute for Indigenous Tertiary Education has been announced as a finalist for this year’s Australian Training Awards, representing the Top End’s vocational education and training sector. This peak national award recognises the very best in the VET sector across Australia and includes finalists from across the country.
This nomination follows the Batchelor Institute’s recent win at the NT Training Awards, taking out the Training Provider of the Year Award as well as Industry Collaboration of the Year.
Two of Batchelor Institute’s lecturers have also been selected to represent the Territory in individual award categories. Aboriginal educator Liam Fraser has been nominated at the VET Teacher/Trainer of the Year for his work as a senior lecturer in construction and Isabel Osuna-Gatty is a finalist for the Excellence in Language, Literacy and Numeracy Practice Award.
The annual award ceremony is held in a different state each year. This year the event is coming to Darwin on Thursday 17 November 2016.
Batchelor Institute is unique within the Australian educational landscape, as the only Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander dual sector tertiary education provider. Offering training in Darwin, Batchelor, Alice Springs and twelve remote learning campuses across the Northern Territory, Batchelor Institute offers culturally appropriate education and applies an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lens to the mainstream education system.