Penrith. NAB awards two students

The National Australia Bank has awarded Blake Herczey, from Penrith, and James Atie, from St Marys, a two-year school-based trainee program with the bank. They would work towards a Certificate II in Business Studies from TAFE. Up to 40 places were offered to indigenous high school students by the bank as part of its new reconciliation action plan (RAP). NAB's Iqbal Kassam said: `The traineeship provides indigenous high school students with a job in a professional, corporate environment and an employment pathway post-high school.”