Published Thursday, 16 February, 2012 at 02:46 PM
Education and Industrial Relations
The Honourable Cameron Dick
Teaching scholarships awarded to rural and remote students
The Bligh Government is continuing to help place some of Queensland’s brightest Indigenous and regional students into Queensland classrooms.
Seventeen teaching scholarships for rural and remote students were awarded in Brisbane today, giving the budding teachers a flying start to their careers.
Education Minister Cameron Dick said the Department of Education and Training offered scholarships valued up to $20,000 each over four years for rural and remote school graduates and those with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage.
“These scholarships have had positive consequences not only for the recipients but also for their communities, schools and the children they teach,” Mr Dick said.
“It has been more than a decade now since the State Government introduced the Pearl Duncan and Bid O’Sullivan Teaching Scholarships.
“Today, more than 90 teachers from rural and remote areas or with Indigenous heritage are teaching in our state schools as a direct result of these scholarships.”
Mr Dick said the teachers taught in schools throughout the state from Charleville to Mornington Island – predominantly in the more remote regions and Indigenous communities.
“These scholarships reflect the work of their namesakes,” Mr Dick said.
“Bid O’Sullivan was a teacher in a small bush school before the Second World War and pioneered the School of the Air in Cloncurry. Pearl Duncan became the first tertiary-trained Aboriginal school teacher in Australia in 1963.
“Their inspirational work continues to make a difference to young people throughout Queensland.”
The scholarships, awarded at a special ceremony at Parliament House today, resulted from the Rural and Remote Strategy, Blueprint for the Bush and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Employment Framework for Action.
Media contact: Minister for Education and Industrial Relations 3237 1000
List of recipients follows.
2012 teaching scholarship recipients
Pearl Duncan Teaching Scholarships:
• Kiralee Campbell-Buck (Bundaberg State High School)
• Naomi Chapman (Roma State College)
• Nicholas Leonard (Benowa State High School)
• Courtney Moyes (Wynnum State High School)
• Courtenay Thompson (Bundaberg State High School)
• Kelsea Thompson (Bundaberg State High School)
• Kayla Casey (teacher aide – Closing the Gap program)
• Fiona Peacock (teacher aide – Golden Beach State School)
• Sinead O’Brien (Bowen)
• Alison Iselin (Brisbane).
Bid O’Sullivan Teaching Scholarships:
• Elizabeth Bradshaw (St Ursula’s College, Yeppoon)
• Kylie Cochrane (Chinchilla State High School)
• Mikayla Giuffrida (Tully State High School)
• Dale Gray (Chinchilla State High School)
• Hayden Hall (All Souls and St Gabriels School Charters Towers)
• Katherine Knauseder (St Mary’s School Maryborough)
• Lauren Schuller (Oakey State High School).
Seventeen teaching scholarships for rural and remote students were awarded in Brisbane today, giving the budding teachers a flying start to their careers.
Education Minister Cameron Dick said the Department of Education and Training offered scholarships valued up to $20,000 each over four years for rural and remote school graduates and those with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage.
“These scholarships have had positive consequences not only for the recipients but also for their communities, schools and the children they teach,” Mr Dick said.
“It has been more than a decade now since the State Government introduced the Pearl Duncan and Bid O’Sullivan Teaching Scholarships.
“Today, more than 90 teachers from rural and remote areas or with Indigenous heritage are teaching in our state schools as a direct result of these scholarships.”
Mr Dick said the teachers taught in schools throughout the state from Charleville to Mornington Island – predominantly in the more remote regions and Indigenous communities.
“These scholarships reflect the work of their namesakes,” Mr Dick said.
“Bid O’Sullivan was a teacher in a small bush school before the Second World War and pioneered the School of the Air in Cloncurry. Pearl Duncan became the first tertiary-trained Aboriginal school teacher in Australia in 1963.
“Their inspirational work continues to make a difference to young people throughout Queensland.”
The scholarships, awarded at a special ceremony at Parliament House today, resulted from the Rural and Remote Strategy, Blueprint for the Bush and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Employment Framework for Action.
Media contact: Minister for Education and Industrial Relations 3237 1000
List of recipients follows.
2012 teaching scholarship recipients
Pearl Duncan Teaching Scholarships:
• Kiralee Campbell-Buck (Bundaberg State High School)
• Naomi Chapman (Roma State College)
• Nicholas Leonard (Benowa State High School)
• Courtney Moyes (Wynnum State High School)
• Courtenay Thompson (Bundaberg State High School)
• Kelsea Thompson (Bundaberg State High School)
• Kayla Casey (teacher aide – Closing the Gap program)
• Fiona Peacock (teacher aide – Golden Beach State School)
• Sinead O’Brien (Bowen)
• Alison Iselin (Brisbane).
Bid O’Sullivan Teaching Scholarships:
• Elizabeth Bradshaw (St Ursula’s College, Yeppoon)
• Kylie Cochrane (Chinchilla State High School)
• Mikayla Giuffrida (Tully State High School)
• Dale Gray (Chinchilla State High School)
• Hayden Hall (All Souls and St Gabriels School Charters Towers)
• Katherine Knauseder (St Mary’s School Maryborough)
• Lauren Schuller (Oakey State High School).