Skyline Education Foundation Australia was
established to provide opportunities for a
unique group of young Victorians: Those who are
socially and financially disadvantaged and also
have clearly measurable talent. The
foundation believes that by encouraging their
educational opportunities, teaching them skills
and developing their personal and leadership
skills that they will go onto achieve and
create opportunities for themselves and others.
SEFA was established in
recognition of the late Joseph Keith Cheetham,
who greatly valued education and the
availability of opportunity for all youth.
The Skyline Education Foundation is a
voluntary, non-denominational organsation and
is funded through tax-deductible gifts and
community support.
Skyline's
purpose
To remove the
financial burden of education from these
students and their families so that they are
not unnecessarily hindered in their desire to
achieve.
What Skyline
does to make a difference?
Meets
the costs associated with education,
including:
- Fees and levies,
compulsory excursion charges
- Textbooks and necessary
materials with which to learn
- Private tuition for
students to support and mentor them in
times of difficulty
Provides a support
structure for students to encourage personal
development by:
- Working closely with the
students school and a nominated staff
member, who becomes the student's companion
teacher
- Providing students with
vocational guidance
- Facilitating a social
network for students so that they can mix,
socialize and draw strength from others in
similar circumstances
- Providing a personal
development workshop and residential camp
which assists students to understand
themselves and to develop their motivation
and tenacity
Our Patron
As Patron
of the Skyline Education Foundation, I would
like to draw attention to its work, which is
dedicated to ensuring that specially talented
children have the kind of educational
opportunities they need over and above the
“basics”.
Economic hardship, geographical isolation and /
or parental indifference prevent many talented
children from securing sufficient education of
high enough quality to ensure that potential
becomes kinetic so that promise become
reality. If children are the future of a
nation, then from the talented ones a nation
obtains the intellectual fruits and properties
that enhance its factual, economic and
humanitarian standing. Governments can only do
so much, dealing in overall matters and social
issues that largely overlook the talented
child, assuming that the talented child will
succeed without government help.
Many an Australian talented
child has failed to reach his or her true level
of achievement thanks to domestic upheaval, the
special difficulties of a non-English-speaking
home, or even the absence of a family of any
kind. Non-governmental organizations like the
Skyline Education Foundation Australia are a
vital part of the struggle to give talented
children the education they not only deserve,
but are entitled to as an inalienable right.
Dr. Colleen
McCullough
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