Magazine article
You don’t need an ATAR to go to uni. You can do an ‘enabling’ or ‘bridging’ course instead
The Conversation, Vol.26 May 2026
2026
Appears in The Conversation
Abstract
In years gone by, school leavers had one main chance to get into university – by finishing their Year 12 exams with certain marks.
Media coverage of Year 12 results perpetuates the idea everything hinges on your final exams. Every year it runs the same stories of star students with perfect ATARs (Australian Tertiary Entrance Rank).
In reality, the ATAR is just one way to begin undergraduate study. There are multiple paths that can take you to uni if that’s where you want to go.
One of these paths is an enabling program. How do these work?
Details
- Title
- You don’t need an ATAR to go to uni. You can do an ‘enabling’ or ‘bridging’ course instead
- Authors
- Susan Hopkins - University of the Sunshine CoastGregory Nash - University of the Sunshine Coast
- Publication details
- The Conversation, Vol.26 May 2026
- Publisher
- Conversation Media Group
- Date published
- 2026
- DOI
- 10.64628/AA.9xddcjvpu
- ISSN
- 2201-5639
- Copyright note
- © The Conversation Media Group. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Organisation Unit
- School of Education and Tertiary Access
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991232901502621
- Output Type
- Magazine article
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