Our History
In late 2019, the Federal Minister for Education announced that the Federal Government would invest $24.2M to establish 16 regional study hubs and university centres in 22 locations across Australia.
The Pilbara Regional Study Hub Steering Committee was awarded $3M in seed funding to establish a regional universities centre in Karratha and a smaller study hub in Port Hedland. Additional seed funding of $550,000 was provided from the Pilbara Development Commission and $450,000 from the City of Karratha.
In mid-2020, our Port Hedland study hub opened at the Web Business Centre and our state of the art, purpose-built Karratha campus was opened at Level 1, the Quarter. Access to high quality tertiary education facilities and support services had finally arrived in the Pilbara!
We received further federal funding to open our new Campus in Broome in June 2023 to support Kimberley students studying higher education and most recently again now in 2024 to open our two newest Study Hubs in the Shire of Ashburton in the towns of Onslow and Tom Price.