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ORIC Spotlight On: Imagination for a fairer world

21 June 2022
Children and Schooling
A woman with long hair tied up in a bun looks out on a landscape and the sun as it sits just above the horizon. She wears a t-shirt with text on the back. It says Mentor aimementoring.com

Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience works to close the gap in education outcomes through a structured program of activities like workshops, tutoring and more.

The ambition of Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME), an Indigenous corporation, is to close the gap in education outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students.

Its primary method has been to deploy volunteer university student mentors who engage in a structured program of activities with secondary school students.

Activities include workshops, tutoring, exposure to role models and thought leaders.

The program has been so successful that in 2019, the AIME board decided to go global, connecting with students all over the world.

‘In taking AIME global... we’ve started a new paradigm… everyone coming together using their collective wits to work out how to solve the challenge of educational inequity,’ said Jack Manning Bancroft, a founding director of AIME.

Learn more about AIME, how it adapted during the Covid pandemic and its plans for the future in this month’s Spotlight On from the Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations.