Quality education can transform people’s lives. But your postcode, location, and background determine your ability to access it.
Our Mission
What we do
An evidence-based approach to intercohort knowledge transfer.
We provide free services to make educational equity a human right in Australia. To help increase tertiary admission rates in Australia, we do:
Free tutoring - we pair up University students and high-school students experiencing disadvantage for free online lessons.
Scholarship support - we run seminars across Australia to help students write scholarships for financial aid, learn about scholarship pathways, and different ways to enter University.
Technology transfer - we partner with businesses to provide old laptops to students in regional and rural Australia to bridge the digital divide.
Why we do it
In Australia, the privatisation of the education system has produced locational and economic disadvantages for students enrolled in high-school. According to UNICEF, Australia scores 5x higher than the OECD average in terms of inequitable allocation of resources to disadvantaged schools.
Students from communities that have higher levels of rurality, cultural diversity and lower socio-economic status face higher barriers to education, including:
Limited access to academic support
Limited visibility for tertiary scholarships
Limited access to mentoring and careers support
Challenges of lower educational expectations
Difficulty accessing financial aid to relocate for University
Numerous global studies have confirmed that underprivileged students who receive personalised tutoring and peer mentorship have improved academic performance, confidence, and higher University admission rates. By making scholarships accessible, we want to help students receive financial aid & the support they deserve.
We’re on a mission to ‘bridge the gap’ to dismantle barriers to accessing tertiary education.
“Education is a privilege that empowers us to make a positive impact on our world.....It is incumbent upon all of us to carry that privilege with a level of responsibility - to use our education and our skills not only for personal gain, but to give back to those who may not have been as fortunate.”
Education is a force for social mobility and the realisation of human rights from a local to global level. With an educated population, we can pave the way to the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
