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Publication : Supporting carers to succeed in Australian higher education
Lisa Andrewartha and Andrew Harvey Centre for Higher Education Equity and Diversity Research La Trobe University Executive summary Australians who care for people with a disability, illness, or a broader need often embody many of the qualities sought by universities. In providing unpaid labour to support family members and friends, carers typically demonstrate resilience, selflessness, […]
24 March 2021
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Publication : Thriving through COVID-19: Reflections from Tertiary Students with Disability at a National Online Forum
On 9 December 2020, the Australian Disability Clearinghouse on Education and Training (ADCET) invited university and TAFE students with disability to participate in a student forum, supported by the NCSEHE, entitled Thriving through COVID-19. ADCET’s earlier scoping survey on the impact of COVID-19 on the tertiary education sector found that while some students struggled with […]
18 February 2021
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Publication : #NCSEHE_Snapshots series
On 26–30 October 2020, the NCSEHE hosted the Student Equity Snapshots Forum — a week of lightning talks and live discussions with the 2019/20 cohort of NCSEHE Equity Fellows. The event was complemented by a series of #NCSEHE_Snapshots publications. Over 500 of the limited edition booklets were mailed to Forum participants and key stakeholders, and […]
10 November 2020
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Publication : NCSEHE Briefing Note — Equity student participation in Australian higher education: 2014–2019
The new NCSEHE Equity Briefing Note is now available. It reports on undergraduate student data collected by the Department of Education, Skills and Employment (DESE). These data are also reported on the NCSEHE Student Equity Data Page. The page is an interactive resource that allow users to make comparisons between institutions, as well as at […]
4 November 2020
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Publication : Discussion Paper on the 2020 Review of the Disability Standards for Education 2005
The Disability Standards for Education 2005 clarify and elaborate the legal obligations of education authorities and providers to students with disability, across all educational settings in Australia, from preschool to higher education. As part of its submission to The 2020 Review of the Disability Standards for Education 2005, the National Centre for Student Equity in […]
25 September 2020
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Publication : Equity in postgraduate education in Australia: Widening participation or widening the Gap?
Deanna Grant-Smith, Bernd Irmer and Robyn Mayes Queensland University of Technology Executive summary The Commonwealth provides funding to universities to improve the access, participation, retention, and success of identified equity groups. Referred to as the widening participation agenda, the explicit goal is to increase levels of university participation by students from these underrepresented social groups […]
10 September 2020
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Publication : Artificial intelligence, ethics, equity and higher education: A ‘beginning-of-the-discussion’ paper
Associate Professor Erica Southgate, University of Newcastle, Australia NCSEHE 2016 Equity Fellow Artificial intelligence (AI) can been defined as: a machine-based system that can, for a given set of human-defined objectives, make predictions, recommendations, or decisions influencing real or virtual environments. AI systems are designed to operate with varying levels of autonomy (OECD, 2019). AI […]
12 August 2020
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Publication : Rethinking ‘widening participation’ in higher education
Sarah O’Shea, NCSEHE Originally published in An invitation to reconceptualise Widening Participation through praxis, Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education July 2020 The term ‘widening participation’ has gained currency across the higher education (HE) environment and is generally used unproblematically in both policy and institutional discourse. A Google search of this term returned nearly […]
15 July 2020
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Publication : NCSEHE 2019 Annual Report
Director’s Report by Professor Sue Trinidad The NCSEHE had another productive year in 2019—as evidenced here in our sixth Annual Report—continuing to provide a strong networking function between student equity policymakers, researchers and practitioners. The Centre has—under the new contract from the Australian Government Department of Education, Skills and Employment for 2019–21—continued its operations to […]
7 May 2020
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Publication : The impact of ‘learning at home’ on the educational outcomes of vulnerable children in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic
Catherine Drane¹, Lynette Vernon² and Sarah O’Shea¹ ¹National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education — Curtin University ²School of Education — Edith Cowan University Executive Summary This review provides an overview of current approaches to managing school closures as well as recent literature related to young people learning “outside of school”. A range of […]
28 April 2020
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