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We are pleased to welcome Professor Paul Harpur OAM as the newest member of the Australian Centre for Student Equity and Success’s Advisory Board. Professor Harpur (pictured with his guide dog Sean) is a distinguished scholar, currently serving as a Professor with the TC Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland. His work […]
13 March 2024
Last week, National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education Executive Director Shamit Saggar joined Federal Education Minister Jason Clare MP at CQUniversity in Rockhampton, Queensland, for the final meeting of the Universities Accord Ministerial Reference Group. The Universities Accord is the biggest review of Australia’s university sector in more than 15 years and aims to drive lasting and […]
6 November 2023
In case you missed it, ADCET’s inaugural Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Symposium, held on the 5th and 7th of September 2023 was a great success. As previously promised, all of the presentations are now available to view on the ADCET website. The UDL in Action: The What, the Why and the How Symposium represented […]
29 September 2023
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
The National Career Development Learning Hub for Students with Disability project is funded by the National Careers Institute (NCI) and led by the NCSEHE. The purpose of the project is to establish the first dedicated national Career Development Learning (CDL) Hub for students with disability which will showcase best practices in the field. The CDL […]
20 April 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
A new study led by Dr Lynette Vernon of Edith Cowan University and funded by the NCSEHE investigates mental health and wellbeing amongst university students, and how the levels of support offered by institutions impacts students during periods of disruption. For higher education students, maintaining optimum mental health and wellbeing is imperative to participate and […]
31 March 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
Helen Miller has lived with disability her whole life and faced discrimination at many turns. While studying online from her home in a small country town was ideal to help manage her health conditions, she credits creative outlets and learning with helping her through difficult times and adjusting to new realities. Since we last caught […]
16 March 2022