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InRoads is designed for high school students aged 16-17 years who live in disadvantaged areas where youth unemployment is highest and have no post-school plan for study or employment. It offers the opportunity to learn about...

It’s hard to believe that six months have already passed since we awarded our 2015 ABCN scholarships. During this time our 15 new scholars have met on various occasions with their mentors with some shadowing...

We were thrilled to receive an update recently from former Fairfield High student, Serena Zhang who took part in GOALS in 2009. Here Serena met her mentor Jill Shapiro from Investec, where the two developed a...

Lisa Phung was one of thousands of refugees who fled Communist Vietnam in the early 1980s. Only three years old when her father was captured by the government for  ‘re-education’, she escaped by boat with...

The Scholarship Foundation hit the ground running this year, welcoming 15 new scholars to the program. Our highest number yet, this latest cohort of students represent NSW, Victoria, Queensland and our first ever recipient from...

In January this year, ABCN merged with Melbourne-based Schools Connect Australia (SCA), enabling the national roll-out of Business Class under the ABCN name and significantly broadening our reach. Business Class is unique in that it...

A bond that began back in 2005, the partnership between MinterEllison and Glenala State High School in Queensland has produced some incredible outcomes and inspirational stories. One such story is that of former student, Lee Vo....

Pregnant at the age of 14 and a self-confessed rebel, WA student Ashleigh Lindsay admits many of her teachers and even some of her family thought she would never amount to anything. But Ashleigh had...

It’s been a particularly special year for ABCN as we celebrated 10 years of partnering business with education. In doing so we also celebrated and acknowledged not only the hundreds of students and schools who...