WSU's Rural Indigenous Students Visits program designed to widen participation of underrepresented groups

By Sarah Falson
Updated June 29 2016 - 8:33am, first published 7:00am
HANDS-ON: Matt Maskiell who is now studying nursing at WSU, with Brianna Adamson and Penny Loiterton from Lightning Ridge High School. Picture: Geoff Jones
HANDS-ON: Matt Maskiell who is now studying nursing at WSU, with Brianna Adamson and Penny Loiterton from Lightning Ridge High School. Picture: Geoff Jones

More than 60 Indigenous students from seven high schools in outback New South Wales were introduced to university life and encouraged to seek tertiary study opportunities during Western Sydney University’s Rural Indigenous Students Visits program.