On Thursday 11 December, the Deputy Prime Minister announced a grant of $1,922,000 under the Diversity and Structural Adjustment Fund for Student Employability Skills & Community Service.

The University of South Australia, through Universities Australia and in partnership with SIFE Australia and more than 30 leading Australian corporations, will assist all partner universities to enhance student employability skills by developing and delivering community service projects.  Assistance from the Diversity and Structural Adjustment Fund will enable all Australian universities to either establish or enhance the development of their own local application of the Students in Free Enterprise model of community empowerment through student social entrepreneurship.  Over three years, a sector-wide cohort of students will develop across all disciplines and institutions, regionally and nationally, linked to the international student body in 44 countries.