A door into uni, no matter your ATAR
On ATAR release day, Daniel was one of many Year 12 students across Australia in no mood to celebrate. “I thought all of my hard work didn’t really equate to the mark that I received back” he says. Nobody in Daniel’s family had been to university, but they held the idea of education in high…
4 students reveal what it’s really like to study business online
We asked four students who chose to study the Bachelor of Business with Griffith University what it’s really like to hit the books, study business, and get it done online through Open Universities Australia. Here’s what they had to say: Danielle, the business leader Danielle had never studied at university before, but as the Head of Operations and Transformation…
A career 180° for criminology graduate
It was mid-career when Chris began work in the justice system, with no prior experience. He’d worked in hospitality, retail and aged care, but never law. What landed him a job, and turned his life around, was the degree he’d recently completed – Griffith University’s Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice. As a Court Assessment…
Empowering mothers through social work
“I had a dream when I was younger that I would study sociology,” says Shiree, Project Coordinator at child protection agency Barnardos “It was a long time coming when I started studying as a mature aged student”. At 19, Shiree became a mother. A great deal of responsibility had fallen into the lap of such…