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If you’re an Indigenous student, you can get private tutoring through the Indigenous Tutorial Assistance Scheme (ITAS). Tutoring can help increase your understanding of concepts, build your study skills and boost your confidence.
The one-on-one setting also lets you focus on overcoming any problems areas you might have, paving the way for you to succeed at university.
The following criteria must be met to be eligible for ITAS tuition:
The student must be of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent
Be enrolled in either a Curtin Enabling course or an Undergraduate award level course (e.g. Bachelor, Associate or Honours) offered at Curtin University
Masters or PhD students are not eligible for ITAS unless they have a Curtin Access Plan.
Group tuition One tutor is tutoring a minimum of 5 students at the same time. Group Tuition Pay rate $60.00 an hour, per session (not per student).
Individual tuition One tutor is tutoring one student at a time. Individual Tuition Pay rate $55.00 an hour (per session, per student).
Tuition is only available during the semester, Block teaching and OUA study periods.
Tuition is not available during semester and/or study period breaks.
The ITAS Officer will determine your eligible tuition hour’s based on your ITAS application.
Students can be eligible for 2 hours per unit per week (maximum full-time load of 4 units), not exceeding a total of 8 hours per week.
How to apply
Download and complete the application form to apply for ITAS. Alternatively, you can collect a form from the ITAS Officer located in the Centre for Aboriginal Studies Student Services area (Building 211), call (08) 9266 2893 or email CAS-ITASAdmin@curtin.edu.au.
You must complete a new form at the start of each semester.
There is a database of qualified tutors available, but you have the option to nominate your own tutor(s) on your ITAS application form. Your nominated tutor must apply to be a tutor under the ITAS program by completing a Prospective Tutor Pack [.pdf 1008kb].
There is a process involved with lodging the tutor application and it will take approximately three weeks to get new tutors on the system, therefore it is vital that applicants lodge their expression of interest as soon as possible.
Prospective ITAS tutors must:
Be qualified through formal education or relevant experience
Not be a close relative of the student. The term ‘family’ can be identified as follows:
A relative by blood or marriage or;
Has strong affinity with the individual and family;
Stands in a bona fide domestic or household relationship with the individual;
Is a child or adopted child of the individual;
Is a child or adopted child of the person standing in a bona fide domestic or household relationship with the individual.
Not be directly involved in the assessment of the course in which the student is enrolled.
Tertiary students as tutors must:
Be at least two academic years ahead of the student (i.e. second year students can only be approved as ITAS tutors for enabling students, third year students can only be approved as ITAS tutors for first year students). First year students are not eligible to be ITAS tutors);
Be able to show evidence of sound academic progress;
Not themselves be receiving ITAS tuition or have received ITAS tuition in the subject area.
Prior to any tutoring, a tutor must have a Sessional Contract and a current Student/Tutor Agreement with Curtin and the Centre for Aboriginal Studies.
About ITAS
Established in 2017, ISSP-ITAS is the ‘Indigenous Student Success Programme – Indigenous Tutorial Assistance Scheme’ as the way in which the Australian Government funds and delivers a range of programs targeting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The scheme allows all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students to receive private tutorial assistance.
