Students in financial hardship

VaxVisa a ticket to ride in COVID times

Erika Harman, a dietician currently studying Bond’s Master of Healthcare Innovations, has worked with her partner to create VaxVisa, a technology solution providing verifiable digital certificates for vaccination and laboratory test results. Ms Harman describes VaxVisa as an app which displays test results much like the digital boarding passes airlines use to check passengers onto a flight. VaxVisa would allow airlines to ensure a passenger’s most recent COVID-19 tests had come back negative or that they had received the vaccine before they boarded their flights.

Extra support for students in financial hardship

Limited part-time employment options mean many current students are “doing it tough” financially, says Vice Chancellor and President, Professor Tim Brailsford. Many jobs in the Gold Coast tourism sector – usually a dependable source of part-time employment for students – disappeared following international and state border closures. Professor Brailsford says this was one of the reasons the University reduced tuition fees last year and delayed increases at the start of this year. The University also established a Student Hardship Fund at the start of the pandemic for those who find themselves in dire financial circumstances. “Over the first three semesters of its operation, the Student Hardship Fund has now made over 500 grants to individual students,” Professor Brailsford says. “If you also want to make a difference and support a fellow Bondy who is doing it tough, please consider making a donation to the Student Hardship Fund. “Myself and all of our senior staff have made personal contributions.”

“Over the first three semesters of its operation, the Student Hardship Fund has now made over 500 grants to individual students.”

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