Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education
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Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education (generally known as Batchelor Institute and formerly known as Batchelor College) provides vocational education and training, formerly TAFE, and higher education for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It is based in Batchelor, Northern Territory in Australia.
Unlike most Australian higher education institutions, it is not an official university. It is attempting to be classed as one. It is also unusual in that most of its students are over 30 years of age, and a high proportion of its students are female.
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[edit] History
Batchelor Institute began in the mid-1960s as an annex of Kormilda College, a residential school for Aboriginal students on the outskirts of Darwin, Northern Territory. Short training programs were provided for Aboriginal teacher aides and assistants in community schools.
In 1974, the college moved to Batchelor (100 kilometres south of Darwin) and has been at its present site since 1982.
A second campus of the college was established in Alice Springs in 1990 to address the educational needs of Aboriginal people from Central Australia. Other annexes were opened in Darwin, Nhulunbuy, Katherine and Tennant Creek.
The Commonwealth Government recognised Batchelor College as an accreditation independent higher education institution through the Higher Education Funding Act 1988. This meant that BIITE could issue its own degrees and other tertiary qualifications without outside involvement like universities, and also be funded like them.
The college was granted autonomy as a public sector agency in 1995. It became independent under Northern Territory legislation on 1 July 1999.
[edit] Campuses and annexes
Batchelor Institute is at 44 locations throughout the Northern Territory and eastern Kimberley, Western Australia.
[edit] Campus/Annex Locations
- Alice Springs, Northern Territory
- Batchelor, Northern Territory
- Darwin, Northern Territory
- Barkly Tennant Creek, Northern Territory
- East Arnhem Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory
- Katherine, Northern Territory
- Kununurra, Western Australia
- Yarrabah, Northern Territory
[edit] Study Centre Locations
- Alekerenge, Northern Territory
- Angurugu Groote Eylandt, Northern Territory
- Alyangula, Northern Territory
- Barunga, Northern Territory
- Borroloola, Northern Territory
- Elliot (Gurungu, Northern Territory
- Gapuwiyak, Northern Territory
- Gunbalunya Oenpelli, Northern Territory
- Hodgson River, Northern Territory
- Jilkminggan, Northern Territory
- Kalkaringi, Northern Territory
- Lajamanu, Northern Territory
- Maningrida, Northern Territory
- Milikapiti Snake Bay, Northern Territory
- Milingimbi, Northern Territory
- Minyerri, Northern Territory
- Watiyawanu Mt Liebig, Northern Territory
- Murrupurtiyanuwu, Northern Territory
- Ngukurr, Northern Territory
- Nguiu, Northern Territory
- Ntaria Hermannsburg, Northern Territory
- Numbulwar, Northern Territory
- Nyirrpi, Northern Territory
- Papunya, Northern Territory
- Purlangimpi, Northern Territory
- Ramingining, Northern Territory
- Timber Creek, Northern Territory
- Umbakumba Groote Eylandt, Northern Territory
- Utopia, Northern Territory
- Wadeye Port Keats, Northern Territory
- Willowra, Northern Territory
- Yarralin, Northern Territory
- Yirrkala, Northern Territory
- Yuendumu, Northern Territory
