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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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Publication : The online student experience: An exploration of first-year university students’ expectations, experiences and outcomes of online education
Thesis written by Melanie Henry Abstract Online higher education presents a critical opportunity to extend and diversify the student body. The Online Student Experience (OSE), and online student outcomes, however, remain shrouded in ambiguity. The literature presents conflicting reports of online education (OE) quality, confounded by a lack of appreciation for potential differences between online […]
6 April 2020
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Publication : NCSEHE briefing note: Equity student participation in Australian higher education 2013–2018
Paul Koshy, National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education Introduction This NCSEHE briefing note reports on domestic undergraduate equity student participation in Australian higher education from 2013 to 2018. It focuses on trends among domestic undergraduate enrolments in Table A Provider institutions in identified equity groups: Low socioeconomic status (Low SES) students Students with […]
17 December 2019
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Publication : Understanding completion rates of Indigenous higher education students from two regional universities
Fiona Shalley, James Smith, Denise Wood, Bronwyn Fredericks, Kim Robertson and Steven Larkin Charles Darwin University, CQUniversity, The University of Queensland and The University of Newcastle Executive summary Data shows that Indigenous higher education students have lower access, participation and completion rates compared with non-Indigenous students. Indigenous students from regional and remote areas face additional challenges […]
17 December 2019
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Publication : Access, quality and wellbeing in engineering Work Integrated Learning placements
Natalie Lloyd (University of Technology Sydney), Megan Paull (Murdoch University), Teena Clerke (University of Technology Sydney) and Sally Male (The University of Western Australia) Executive Summary Access, quality and wellbeing in engineering Work Integrated Learning placements: Implications for equity and diversity is a mixed methods study which examines student engineers’ experiences in Work Integrated Learning […]
5 December 2019
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