In the lead up to the launch of the AIEF Compendium, Andrew Penfold explains how the Compendium can assist schools around the country to achieve better outcomes with thousands more students than the 7,000 AIEF aims to support through its programs.

A new AIEF campaign in The Australian highlights the fact that motivates AIEF’s work – there is no gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians who are well educated. With the launch of the AIEF Compendium of best practice for achieving successful outcomes with Indigenous students in Australian boarding schools, produced with the support of HSBC […]

The Australian profiles Tim Hill, who is graduating from the University of Sydney with degrees in Engineering and Commerce after completing his studies last year on an AIEF-BHP Billiton Tertiary Scholarship. Tim is the first student to graduate on the scholarship, which is awarded to outstanding Indigenous students studying engineering and other mining-related degrees, and […]

An editorial in The Australian says AIEF Scholarships enable Indigenous children to take advantage of the full range of opportunities available in Australia today.

On the seventh anniversary of the Apology to Australia’s Indigenous peoples, AIEF Alum Phillip reflects on the significance of the Apology and calls for recognition of Indigenous Australians in the Constitution.

AIEF Ambassadors Sir Ralph Norris, John Eales AM, Mark Arbib and John Hartigan on why they support AIEF.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott says an AIEF Scholar – like Lowanna Moran, the first student to complete both her secondary and tertiary education on AIEF Scholarships – will one day become Prime Minister.

At the launch of AIEF’s ground-breaking guide to best practice in Indigenous education, Latiesha Dunbar told an audience including business leaders and the Prime Minister that AIEF’s support helped her keep a promise to become the first person in her family to finish Year 12.

The Weekend Australian’s Business Pulse of the Nation reports from the AIEF Compendium and Annual Report Launch.

An editorial in The Australian says the latest edition of the Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage report highlights the effectiveness of programs developed by communities and says that such initiatives, as well as the work of non-government organisations like AIEF “should continue for as long as it takes” to ensure Indigenous Australians “enjoy the prosperity and opportunities […]

Editor-in-Chief of The Australian Women’s Weekly Helen McCabe says that attending boarding school changed her life and introduced her to a whole new world of learning. In The Weekend Australian she says she is proud to support AIEF’s efforts to provide the same opportunities to a generation of Indigenous children.

David Gonski AC says that education can have impact not only on a family, but in the wider community, and that he believes strongly in the work of AIEF, “an organisation dedicated to bringing great education opportunities within the reach of young Indigenous Australians”.