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Publication : NCSEHE Focus: Successful outcomes for low SES students in Australian higher education

Issues, challenges, opportunities and recommendations from research funded by the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education Introduction The major expansion in student numbers that followed the introduction of the demand-driven funding system has resulted in more students from equity groups accessing university. Between 2008 and 2015 the number of undergraduate domestic students increased […]

9 August 2017

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Publication : Social Marketing Strategy for Low SES Communities

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report outlines the findings of a project ‘Social Marketing Strategy for low SES Communities Research and Strategy Phase’ which was commissioned and funded as part of the Australian Government Department of Education and Training’s National Priorities Pool 2014 round. The objective of the project was to ‘research and design an appropriate, cost […]

30 March 2017

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Publication : Social Marketing Strategy for Low SES Communities: Position Paper

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Education is transformative. Education delivers benefits to individuals, their families and communities. It is this far-reaching impact that compels research into understanding why people from low-socio economic status (SES) backgrounds are under-represented in tertiary education, and finding new ways to address this situation. This position paper reviews what is currently known about interventions […]

25 October 2016

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Publication : Are Low SES Students Disadvantaged in the University Application Process?

Written by Dr Buly Cardak (La Trobe University), Dr Mark Bowden and Mr John Bahtsevanoglou (Swinburne University of Technology) Executive Summary This report investigates the sources of inequalities in university participation by focusing on the university application and admission process. We build on the growing international evidence of differences between high and low socioeconomic status (SES) […]

3 November 2015

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Publication : ‘Low income doesn’t mean stupid and destined for failure’: challenging the deficit discourse around students from low SES backgrounds in higher education

Written by Jade McKay and Marcia Devlin ABSTRACT The discourse around students from low socio-economic backgrounds often adopts a deficit conception in which these students are seen as a ‘problem’ in higher education. In light of recent figures pointing to an increase in the number and proportion of these students participating in higher education and […]

22 September 2015

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Publication : Overcoming adversity among low SES: A study of strategies for retention

Written by Ameera Karimshah, Dr Marianne Wyder, Associate Professor Paul Henman, Dwight Tay, Elizabeth Capelin, and Dr Patricia Short Students from low socio-economic status (SES) backgrounds are underrepresented in higher education (Chapman, 2004; Coates & Kraus, 2005; James, 2007; DEET & NBEET, 1990; DEEWR, 2008). Several higher education reforms in Australia have tried to redress […]

4 October 2013

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Publication : Targets for Low SES Participation in Australian Higher Education

Written by NCSEHE’s Paul Koshy ABSTRACT This paper examines the measurement of the socio-economic status of Australian higher education students in relation to the Rudd/Gillard Government’s establishment of enrolment targets for higher education providers in regard to students from low socio-economic status (“low SES”) backgrounds. In particular, it discusses area measures of socio-economic status […]

18 September 2013

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Publication : University enabling programs while still at school: supporting the transition of low-SES students from high school to university

Lynette Vernon, Stuart J. Watson, William Moore and Sarah Seddon Published in The Australian Educational Researcher November 2018 Abstract University participation rates are significantly lower in low socioeconomic status (SES) areas in Australia. Specifically, rates differ between-schools and within-schools, where inequalities in opportunities to access university pathway programs exist. The aim of this study was to test […]

7 December 2018

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Publication : Exploring the Experience of Low-SES Students via Enabling Pathways

Written by Dr Chad Habel, Dr Kirsty Whitman (University of Adelaide) & Jennifer Stokes (University of South Australia) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Since the 1980s, Enabling Pathways have been one of the main ways that prospective students from low-SES backgrounds have been able to enter into universities. These programs, often known as Foundation Studies or Preparatory Programs, […]

21 November 2016

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Publication : Closing the policy–practice gap for low-SES students in higher education: the pedagogical challenge

Written by Dr Glyn Thomas (University of Queensland) ABSTRACT This paper reports on an interpretivist research study that sought to articulate the strategies being adopted by selected universities to recruit, teach and retain students from low socio-economic status (SES) backgrounds. The literature is clear that these students face more barriers and fewer encouragers than their […]

4 November 2014

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