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Scholarships to give 28 students a Headstart
The determination shown by 28 high school students from across the region to continue their education at the University of the Sunshine Coast will be recognised and rewarded on Monday 24 August.
USC will hold its annual Headstart Scholarships awards night from 6-7.30pm at the Innovation Centre Auditorium at USC’s Sippy Downs campus.
Scholarship donors – including David Kirk, John Shadforth and Mark O’Neill – will present $375 scholarships to students who hail from 22 different schools.
Headstart is designed to create a seamless transition from school to tertiary study, allowing Year 11 and 12 students to complete accredited university courses while still at school.
The popular program began in 2002 and has since provided more than 715 high school students, from as far as Gympie and Redcliffe, with a valuable pre-taste of what it’s like to attend university.
The Headstart program this week received a prestigious Australian Learning and Teaching Council citation worth $10,000 during a ceremony at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane on Tuesday 18 August.
This award recognised the program’s efforts in “enhancing students’ development as individuals and as learners, through immersion in university courses across all faculties”.