Deadline: 31 January 2025
Submission of applications for the Bendigo Bank TAFE Scholarship for Indigenous Students Program is now open.
The 2025 Bendigo Bank TAFE Scholarship for Indigenous Students aims to assist Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people (of any age) with a passion for local leadership and a desire to support their communities through future study, who have been offered a place at an Australian TAFE Institute to study for the first time in 2025 and are experiencing challenging circumstances.
Funding Information
- The scholarship award value $5,000 per year for 2 years for each successful recipient,
Cost Covered
- The Scholarship program supports the following study related expenses accommodation costs, course costs (excluding HELP), study-related materials/equipment, textbooks, tutoring and /or education related travel (within Australia).
Eligibility Criteria
- You are an Australian citizen or permanent resident.
- You identify as an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person.
- You can demonstrate leadership both within, and outside, your school community.
- You can demonstrate the challenging circumstances (financial &/or social) hindering your ability to undertake further study; and
- You are a motivated student who can demonstrate community involvement.
- Qualification criteria:
- You will be a first time TAFE student, studying on a full-time or part-time basis.
- You have been offered a place to commence study in 2025 at an approved Australian TAFE institute campus in an eligible Australian course.
- You can be studying on campus and/or off campus (including online).
- You can be of any age to apply for this scholarship – Students under the age of 18 years will require parental/guardian consent to accept this scholarship.
- Eligible courses include:
- Full-time or competency-based completion (Apprenticeships),
- Certificate I, II, III or IV, Diploma, Advanced Diploma or Associate degree
- Course must be of at least 10 weeks’ duration for full-time study or the part time equivalent.
For more information, visit Bendigo Bank.
