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Event : Symposium: Capabilities and Capitals: Implications for Students’ Persistence and Success at University
Overview This symposium is being funded as part of an ARC Discovery project entitled Higher education participation and success: Investigating the persistence strategies of students who are the first in their family to attend university. This event will bring together key thinkers and scholars who have applied the capability theory (Sen 1992, 1993) and capital theory (Bourdieu, 1986, 1993) […]
30 August 2019
Featured, First in Family, General
Event : Ranking universities based on equity – it is ‘doable’, but is it desirable?
Presented by the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education This session presents findings from a research project which aimed to rank Australian universities on their ‘equity performance’; that is, the extent to which they were accessible for, supportive of, and benefiting students traditionally under-represented in higher education. The study comprised a conceptual consideration […]
23 August 2019
Disability, Featured, First in Family, General, Indigenous, International, Low SES, Regional
Event : Curtin Corner: The Fourth Industrial Revolution and its Impact on Skills, Training and Learning
Technological innovation is seen as an engine for long-run sustainable economic development and a driver of productivity growth. It is also widely accepted that the disruptive impacts of technology are amplified by their interaction with each other in the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0 or i4.0). Collectively, this has important implications for employment and […]
19 August 2019
Featured, General
Event : 2019 John Western Public Lecture
Data analytics in the public sector – the tortoise or the hare? This event is organised by The University of Queensland’s School of Social Science and Institute for Social Science Research in honour of former UQ Professor of Sociology John Western AM. All are welcome to attend. For catering purposes, please register by 5 September […]
5 August 2019
Featured, General
Event : 2019 AAIR Forum
The 30th Australian Association for Institutional Research (AAIR) Annual Forum, Institutional Research: The Devil is in the Detail, will be held in Hobart, Tasmania. Forum Themes the evolving role of the institutional researcher justifying the value of higher education and research evidence-based strategic planning (and implementation) benchmarking for continuous quality improvement informing learning and teaching through evaluation […]
2 August 2019
Disability, Featured, First in Family, General, Indigenous, International, Low SES, Regional
Event : Webinar with NCSEHE Research Fellow Maria Raciti
Career construction, future work and the perceived risks of going to university for young people from low SES backgrounds During 2018/19, the NCSEHE has supported Associate Professor Maria Raciti to conduct a Research Fellowship project examining the relationships between perceived risk and university participation for low socioeconomic status (SES) students. In this webinar, Maria provided […]
24 July 2019
Disability, First in Family, General, Indigenous, International, Low SES, Regional
Event : Collective Praxis: a Forum on the Writing Program for Equity & Widening Participation Practitioners
This forum will highlight the work developed through the national Writing Program for Equity & Widening Participation Practitioners developed by the Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education. The event will provide space and time for practitioners to share reflections on how engaging with the research process provides a critical space to engage with what equity means […]
4 July 2019
Disability, Featured, First in Family, General, Indigenous, International, Low SES, Regional
Event : ADCET Webinar
Collaboration for improved career development decisions for students with mental health conditions Without a holistic approach to the entire career choice, beginning with study are we setting students up to fail? Collaboration between disabilities and career services is essential for students with disabilities to ensure they fulfil degree inherent requirements This partnership begins with the […]
24 June 2019
Disability, Featured, General
Event : ANZSSA Conference 2019
ANZSSA members from Aotearoa/New Zealand are delighted to invite you to the ANZSSA 2019 Conference which will be held at the University of Otago in Dunedin from 8–11 December 2019. The theme is Ka karangaranga i te pari, ka eke ki te taumata: Amplifying narratives for student success. Who Should Attend The conference will be of […]
24 June 2019
Disability, Featured, First in Family, General, Indigenous, International, Low SES, Regional
Event : 30th ISANA International Education Association Conference
The 30th ISANA International Education Association Conference will be held at the Bayview Eden, Melbourne, from 3 to 6 December 2019. The theme for the conference is Leading and inspiring through collaboration: Student wellbeing and support services, today and tomorrow. The conference will provide the opportunity to explore and discuss the many factors that contribute […]
24 June 2019
Disability, Featured, First in Family, General, Indigenous, International, Issues, Low SES, Regional