Indigenous Relocation and Accommodation Scholarship

Overview To provide Indigenous students from regional and remote areas access with financial assistance towards the cost of relocating to support their academic success.

To be eligible for the scholarship an applicant must:

• be of Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent and provide either:
• a Confirmation of Aboriginality from a Local Aboriginal Land Council or other Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander organisation; or
• a UTS Statutory Declaration form accompanied by two written references from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people from the applicant’s community who can confirm their identity and are not an immediate family member; and
• be intending to enrol, or currently enrolled, in an eligible course, which includes:
• an undergraduate award course; or
• a postgraduate award course; or
• the Jumbunna Unistart program; and
• be relocating from a regional or remote area* to attend UTS; and
• not be in receipt of other Commonwealth funding which may make them ineligible for this Scholarship; and
• apply using the Universities Admission Centre (UAC) Equity Scholarship application form and therein demonstrate financial disadvantage through:
• receiving a means-tested Commonwealth income support payment (e.g. ABSTUDY, Parenting Payment Single, Disability Support Pension, Carer Allowance); or
• providing comprehensive information demonstrating exceptional financial hardship.

Alternatively, students can arrange a financial assessment with the UTS Financial Assistance Service to evidence financial disadvantage. This option is only available when an applicant cannot demonstrate financial disadvantage as specified above and in the UAC Equity Scholarship application.

*Regional or remote areas include Inner Regional, Outer Regional Remote or Very Remote areas as defined in the ASGC Remoteness Areas classification as described in the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2004 publication, ‘Rural, Regional and Remote Health: A Guide to Remoteness Classifications’.

Selection process:

• Recipients are selected based on meeting the eligibility criteria.
• Applicants that meet the eligibility criteria are not guaranteed a Scholarship as the number available is based on -
• Commonwealth funding available to UTS each year.
• For undergraduate students, preference is given to students commencing, or enrolled in, their first undergraduate course.
• Continuing students that have not maintained a minimum pass average (minimum WAM 50) in the previous session may not be considered for the Scholarship.