Transitions to Post-School Life by Margarita Pavlova John Chi-Kin Lee & Rupert Maclean

Author:Margarita Pavlova, John Chi-Kin Lee & Rupert Maclean
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer Singapore, Singapore

Responses like the above point to examples where the school and the community including the local universities have combined resources to create enabling practices that support vulnerable students.

Through this win-win partnership and pulling together of resources, ‘over 1500 tutors – have volunteered their time to assist children and young people of refugee background settle into school in local communities’ (ALNF 2016). In Blacktown area of NSW, for example, more than 30 schools (both primary and secondary schools) have been involved in the RAS program (Brace 2015). In 2012, about 300 tutors were trained to support over 600 vulnerable young learners. Their successful stories of the program were featured in the Sydney Morning Herald (e.g. see Han 2012). In a regional location, one high school had had more than 90 tutors working with 130 students by the end of 2013 (Brace 2015). More recently, the Refugee Council of Australia, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission and the MacJanet Prize for Global Citizenship highlighted the RAS program as an exemplary support network enhancing transition into Australian schooling (ALNF 2016).

The next selected program is another university-driven transition support practice which involves enculturation and immersion of the refugee background students in a university environment.

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