Our Marketing and Partnerships team, Georgie and Kiri, have just completed the first of several planned national roadshows for 2021. We spent a week and a half in the Northern Territory visiting, meeting and connecting with organisations and schools from Darwin to Alice Springs.
An integral part of our national roadshows is meeting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Co-operatives and Corporations. They are the key to community and have employees in (all or a combination of) Education, Health, Social Work and Law. The partnerships we establish can create hubs of recruitment from staff wanting to upskill or through connecting us to community who wish to gain higher education. The exciting part about this roadshow was that every organisation was really interested, each one keen to share the opportunity of NIKERI Institute with both their staff and their communities.
We ran NEPP engagements in two schools, Katherine High School and St Philips College (in Alice Springs). These engagements put us in front of Indigenous students in years 10, 11 and 12. The interactive engagement was about introducing NIKERI Institute and higher education as a legitimate pathway to students. The discussions that we had were inspiring and it felt like we made a difference to these students. We sat down with year 12s and spoke in more detail about application process and specific courses of interest.
Current students and Alumni had the opportunity to record interviews as a way of sharing their unique stories, these will be used in marketing and on social media but also within school and information session to inspire prospective students.
NIKERI Institute gains a lot of applications via word of mouth, this roadshow introduced NIKERI to whole new groups of people in Darwin and Alice Springs and we currently have no connection with Katherine, so it is exciting to start building community there.
We held so many conversations, shared a lot of information, captured amazing videos and photos, inspired young mob, drove over 1,500 kilometres, and saw beautiful country.
