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Australian Apprenticeships
Australian Apprenticeships are available to anyone of working age and do not require any entry qualifications. You can be a school-leaver, re-entering the workforce or simply wishing to change careers.

Assistance for people with a disability is available through :

  • Disabled Australian Apprentice Wage Support
  • available to an employer who currently employs an apprentice
    with a disability and has been assessed as a person requiring
    assistance.


  • Assistance for Tutorial, Interpreter and Mentor Services
  • payable directly to the Registered Training Provider.

  • Workplace Modifications
  • includes the purchase, lease or hire of equipment to help the
    apprentice in their work.

Marinucci Building
19 Hartley St
Alice Springs
NT 0870

telephone (08) 8953 3311
fax (08) 8953 4090
email alice@aacnt.com.au


Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education
Specialising in career pathways for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Campuses in Alice Springs, Mt. Liebig, Ntaria, Papunya, Willowra and Yuendumu

Bloomfield St
Alice Springs
NT 0870
(PO Box 9173)

freecall 1800 009 944
telephone (08) 8951 8300
fax (08) 8951 8311
email enquiries@batchelor.edu.au

Disability Support Services web site

Student Support Officer (Alice Springs campus)
Dawn Ross
telephone (08) 8951 8331
email dawn.ross@batchelor.edu.au

Disability Support Officer (Top End campus)
Peggy Spence
telephone (08) 8939 7445
fax (08) 8939 7442
email peggy.spence@batchelor.edu.au


Bindi Centasales
Day options programme for people with a disability (mainly intellectual);
Vocational training programme & supported employment

PO Box 2780
Alice Springs
NT 0871

47 Elder St
Alice Springs 0870

telephone (08) 8952 7277
fax (08) 8952 3747


Centre for Appropriate Technology Inc
A national Indigenous science and technology organisation, CAT is a resource for remote communities offering a range of services in education, training, research, technologies and products, media and policy work. Provides accomodation for people from remote communities attending courses in Alice Springs .

32 Priest St
Alice Springs
NT 0870

telephone (08) 8951 4311
fax (08) 8951 4333
email info@icat.org.au


Charles Darwin University

Alice Springs campus
Grevillea Drv
Alice Springs
NT 0870

telephone (08) 8959 5211
fax (08) 8952 9856
freecall 1800 654 865

Assistance for students with a disability contact :

Penny Bowen
Student Support Worker
telephone (08) 8959 5259
email penelope.bowen@cdu.edu.au

Indigenous Academic Support Team

Lorraine St Clair
tel (08) 8959 5411
email lorraine.stclair@cdu.edu.au

David Reilly
tel (08) 8959 5411
email david.reilly@cdu.edu.au

Can help with :

• assisting students with enrolments and course information.
• provision of academic support and referrals for ITAS
tutoring.
• providing advocacy support (ie helping deal with problems
with Centrelink, lecturers etc).
• referral to other support agencies (ie counselling) and
information and assistance in accessing services
on campus.
• providing information about scholarships and other
opportunities that become available for students from
time to time.
• access to support and appropriate study facilities at
Alice Springs campus.
• preparation of monthly email newsletter for students.
• visits to schools and community organisations to talk
about CDU.

Darwin campus
telephone (08) 8946 6666
Course & Enrolment Info, freecall 1800 061 963

Student Facilitator (Disabilities)
Kerrie Munro
Equity and Student Access Branch
telephone (08) 8946 6288
fax (08) 8946 6654
email kerrie.munro@cdu.edu.au

Regional Disability Liaison Officer
Liz Reid
telephone (08) 8946 6951
fax (08) 8946 6654
email Elizabeth.Reid@cdu.edu.au


CHARTTES Training Advisory Council
Facilitating quality training in the NT Cultural, Recreation
and Tourism industries.


Commonwealth Government Education Portal
Online entry point to a comprehensive array of Australian
Government information and services concerning all aspect
and levels of education in Australia.


EdNa Online
Australia's gateway to resources and services for
Education and training.


Get Vet
Information on Vocational Education and Training.

 

Going to Uni
An information source for prospective and continuing higher education students.


Group Training NT
An employment and training arrangement in which GT NT employs apprentices and trainees and places them with host employers. GT NT manages wages and undertakes the employer responsibilities for the quality and continuity of the apprentices’ and trainees’ employment and training.

Marinucci Building
19 Hartley St
Alice Springs
NT 0870

telephone (08) 8953 2622
fax (08) 8953 4090


Hanson Training
Works closely with CRS Australia and Employment Access
offering training in a non-threatening, calm, friendly environment
where people with a disability can feel safe. Also offers a culturally
appropriate training environment for Indigenous people.

18 Warburton Street
(Entrance in Lindsay avenue)
Old East Side
Alice Springs
NT 0870

PO Box 1218
Alice Springs
NT 0871

telephone (08) 8953 3966
fax (08) 8953 3639
email sue@hansontrainingservices.com.au


Institute for Aboriginal Development
IAD is an Aboriginal community controlled organisation that provides courses designed and delivered to suit Aboriginal ways of learning.

3 South Tce
Alice Springs
NT 0870

PO Box 2531
Alice Springs
NT 0871

Student Services
Nicole Laughton or Vera Ah Chee
telephone (08) 8951 1355
email student.services@iad.edu.au


Latis - Learning and Technology in Schools


LiteracyNet
This site contains key information about Australian adult literacy activity and links to a range of additional programme, professional development, resource, and research sites.


Mature Study
Information for people of mature age with a disability and/or medical condition considering tertiary education at TAFE, university or Registered Training Organisations (RTOs).


Northern Territory Open Education Centre
A government school within the Northern Territory Department of Education, offering courses by distance education for students from Year 8 to Year 12 who are ‘isolated’ for reasons such as:

geographical location
limited access to a secondary qualified teacher
social isolation
a medical condition
involvement with corrective services or on probation
re-entry age or maturity
competing essential daytime activities

21 Chrisp Street
Rapid Creek 0810

PO Box 40471
Casuarina NT 0811

telephone (08) 8922 2292 or freecall 1800 062 235
facsimile (08) 8922 2258

ntoec@ntoec.nt.edu.au


NT Department of Employment, Education and Training


Nyangatjatjara College

  PO Box 171   Docker River Campus (08) 8956 7098
  Yulara   Imanpa Campus (08) 8956 7038
  NT 0872   Mutitjulu Campus (08) 8956 2270
      Yulara Campus (08) 8956 2155
        fax (08) 8956 2466

 

Training.com.au
A single point of access to the vast range of vocational education and training information, products and services in Australia.

 

University Web Sites
Links to all universities in Australia

 

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