A better future for refugees.
A skilled future for Australia.

We are excited to announce that applications for the 2026 Refugee Student Settlement Program (RSSP) intake open on February 16, 2026! To help you get ready, we are sharing five tips to help you prepare your application.

A recap of the Welcome Forum in Sydney, where the inaugural refugee student cohort came together for orientation, connection and a shared start to life and study in Australia.

This month Skill Path is welcoming refugee students to Australia every week. It’s been a long road to get here, but the rush of airport arrivals makes it all worth it.

Two weeks ago, Osama became the first student to arrive through a new migration program making it possible for refugees to study and settle permanently in Australia.

At the Global Refugee Forum in 2023 Australia pledged to increase community sponsored and other complementary places for refugees to 10,000 per year. Now is the time to do it.

Refugee students will be arriving in Australia through the Refugee Student Settlement Pathway (RSSP) to study at university later this year. You can help them feel welcome by joining a Student Welcome Group (SWG) at your uni.

This World Refugee Day Skill Path has joined forces with the Multicultural Youth Advocacy Network (MYAN) to launch a new Youth Advisory Group to guide the development of the ground breaking Refugee Student Settlement Pathway.

Refugee students like Dar Dar Moo are already showing what’s possible, but to scale the Refugee Student Settlement Pathway, we need investment in the stepping stones that get students from the classroom to university. Here’s what we learned in Thailand.

Some experiences fundamentally shift your perspective on the world. Last week's journey from Bangkok to the Thai-Myanmar border brought into sharp focus both the immense challenges facing refugee communities and the extraordinary resilience of those who refuse to let circumstances define their futures.

We’re in a moment where AI is radically accelerating efficiency, and that’s a game-changer for organisations like ours. Read about Skill Path’s approach to using AI in an ethical, human-centred way to expand refugee access to education, training and licensing.

Six days. One country. 130 schools defying the odds to educate refugee students, though most here can't access classrooms. Most unforgettably, 13 refugee students bound for Australia.

Last week I travelled to Malaysia with Dr Sally Baker to meet Refugee Student Settlement Pathway (RSSP) Awardees, schools and partner organisations. These students are bold, brilliant, and determined. They remind us what’s possible when barriers are removed and potential is given space to grow.

An exceptional group of 20 refugee students is bound for Australia as part of the first intake of the Refugee Student Settlement Pathway (RSSP)—a pilot program enabling refugee students to migrate permanently to Australia for tertiary education.

The Australian government has greenlit the Refugee Student Settlement Pathway (RSSP), a new pilot program allowing refugee students to migrate to Australia to take up tertiary education opportunities in 2025.  

Wouldn’t it be amazing to build a workforce for Australia’s future, while giving refugees an opportunity to fulfil their potential? That’s what Skill Path Australia sets out to do.