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“Hey, my kid is in year 12. What the hell is an ATAR?” NCSEHE PhD student Jaimey Facchin is hoping her research can equip parents and carers of First-in-Family (FiF) students to navigate the world of higher education and support FiF students across their educational journey. Following a career in equity student outreach, Jaimey elected […]
16 June 2022
Director’s Report Professor Sarah O’Shea Building upon the work conducted by the NCSEHE in 2020, the Centre has continued to foreground educational equity across higher education policy, practice, and research. This eighth Annual Report details NCSEHE activities designed to build the connections between equity policymakers, researchers, and practitioners as well as provide a platform for […]
26 May 2022
The fifth volume in the Informing Policy and Practice series collates 21 reports from the NCSEHE Student Equity in Higher Education Research Grants and Equity Fellows Programs. In this print and digital series, each report is summarised and accompanied by expert commentary, highlighting the strengths and relevance of the projects. Foreword NCSEHE Director, Professor Sarah […]
3 May 2022
New NCSEHE-funded research using national student enrolment data released to universities by the Department of Education, Skills and Employment (DESE) has examined student equity stratification by field of education and institution. The research team, Beni Cakitaki, Michael Luckman, and Professor Andrew Harvey, analysed of the patterns of course and institutional stratification for six equity groups, […]
12 April 2022
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander university students are enrolling in university degrees at historically high rates; however, the majority of these students are not completing their qualifications. The latest available national statistics show that the national average six-year bachelor degree completion rate for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander university students is 41 per cent. This […]
7 April 2022
New research led by Tomasz Zając from The University of Queensland identified the critical importance of pre-existing poor mental health as a predictor of student attrition during the first year of university. The NCSEHE-funded study found that two equity cohorts, Indigenous students and people with disability, were more likely to exhibit poor mental health prior […]
24 March 2022
Amani Bell & Meenakshi Krishnaraj, The University of Sydney About the manifesto We believe that student-staff partnerships can be a pathway toward socially just higher education, particularly when diversity is viewed as a strength, and when intersectionality and Indigenous ways of knowing and being are considered. Working with university students and staff during the 2021 […]
23 March 2022
Drawing on the first longitudinal data set on care leavers in Australian higher education, new research led by Andrew Harvey at La Trobe University examines the access, geo-demographic profile, course selection, success, retention, and completion rates of care leavers across La Trobe and Federation universities. The data set focuses on all aspects of the student […]
15 March 2022
Attracting more Indigenous students to healthcare professions has been recommended to improve health outcomes for Indigenous Australians. A new report by NCSEHE Equity Fellow Dr Andrea Simpson calls for stronger links between vocational and higher education to promote Indigenous participation in healthcare study. “Indigenous people are less likely to use mainstream healthcare facilities, for reasons […]
2 March 2022
New NCSEHE-funded research shows that while the number of Indigenous students participating in higher education continues to grow, Indigenous student completion rates remain very low relative to non-Indigenous students. Led by Professor Bronwyn Fredericks from The University of Queensland, the team investigated national data which indicates that, while Indigenous students typically can take longer to […]
28 February 2022