Community & schools - University of Wollongong

This page contains information for the Southern Highlands local community and schools. Whether you're a student, educator, or community member, you'll find valuable information and resources specifically for your information.

UOW Regional campuses community engagement

For more than 23 years, in addition to educating over 3,600 local UOW graduates, the University of Wollongong Regional campuses have actively engaged with our local communities to drive positive change and enhance the lives of community members. At UOW, we are dedicated to making a meaningful impact on the health, education, and well-being of our diverse communities. Explore our recent initiatives to see the difference we're making.

UOW REGIONALS

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UOW Southern Highlands: Empowering regional students to become future doctors

We’re excited to share that in January 2025, our Moss Vale campus will welcome its first cohort of medical students. The UOW Graduate School of Medicine aims to produce doctors for regional and remote communities.

Media release UOW Doctor of Medicine

UOW programs for local schools, parents and carers.

The UOW Outreach and Future Students team work with primary and high school students, parents and carers, and career advisers and teachers, with the aim of enabling aspirations and awareness towards higher education, and providing students with the knowledge and skills to get there.

High school students

Primary school students

Career advisers and teachers

Parents and carers

My Future Matters outreach program

UOW's Woolyungah Indigenous Centre delivers the My Future Matters program to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in years 7 to 12. The program aims to shape students' awareness and aspirations of higher education and post-school options.

Learn more about the program Indigenous Regional Summer Camp

Acknowledgement of Country

We acknowledge that Country for Aboriginal peoples is an interconnected set of ancient and sophisticated relationships. The University of Wollongong spreads across many interrelated Aboriginal Countries that are bound by this sacred landscape, and intimate relationship with that landscape since creation. From Sydney to the Southern Highlands, to the South Coast. From fresh water to bitter water to salt. From City to Urban to Rural. The University of Wollongong Acknowledges the Custodianship of the Aboriginal peoples of this place and space that has kept alive the relationships between all living things. The University Acknowledges the devastating impact of colonisation on our campuses' footprint and commit ourselves to truth-telling, healing and education.