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Impact School: Education for Remote & Regional Australia Educational access and quality is a cornerstone of social impact in a fast-paced globalising and urbanising world. Given the changing context of education in the 21st century, we are faced with new challenges on top of long-existing issues in rural places. How do we ensure quality education […]
22 June 2017
The Australian Disability Clearinghouse on Education and Training (ADCET), the Australian Tertiary Education Network on Disability (ATEND), and the NCSEHE presented a free webinar presented by Dr Ian Li (University of Western Australia). Dr Li presented the findings of his recent NCSEHE funded research, Factors Influencing University Student Satisfaction, Dropout and Academic Performance: An Australian Higher Education […]
10 May 2017
The Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) Annual Research Conference attracts wide participation from researchers globally. It provides a stimulating international forum for papers of an empirical or scholarly nature relating to research into higher education, in the broadest sense, and from a breadth of different disciplinary perspectives. The conference is highly participative, promoting the […]
10 May 2017
View presentation slides This session generated a conversation about the ways in which student equity practice can inform research questions, methods and outcomes. This in turn informs practice as a cyclical process. Drawing upon examples of their own research, Dr Cathy Stone and Associate Professor Sarah O’Shea shared their own experiences as practitioners and researchers […]
5 May 2017
Challenges of Education Systems, School Cultures and Student Attainment Hosted by the John Curtin Institute of Public Policy and the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE), this presentation outlines the national, state and local contexts of an Australian project designed to build and support aspirations of students in low SES high schools to encourage […]
20 April 2017
The Inclusive Education Summit 2017 invites us to come together to think about education at a momentous time in global history, where the world has fractured, people are displaced and we search for new research, education programmes and political leadership to restore social cohesion and rebuild school systems that may claim to be an apprenticeship […]
5 April 2017
The NCSEHE and Equity Practitioners in Higher Education Australasia (EPHEA) will showcase the outcomes of the 2017 Equity Fellows at the Fellows Forum, presented at the 2017 EPHEA Conference in November 2017. Presentations from Associate Professor James Smith from Charles Darwin University, Ms Louise Pollard from The University of Western Australia and Mr Matt Brett from La Trobe University will outline their […]
22 March 2017
The biennial EPHEA conference is as a key professional development forum for equity practitioners in a wide range of fields to highlight best practice in student and staff equity. Equity practitioners across the higher education sectors in Australia, New Zealand/Pacific and internationally are invited to participate. This year’s theme is ‘Re-imagining equity: now and in […]
22 March 2017
This conference provides the opportunity to disseminate and discuss current research, good practice, emerging initiatives and leading edge ideas that are aimed at enhancing students’ tertiary learning experiences. Discussion on a wide variety of subjects is encouraged and focuses on the following topics: Students – who are they, what are their needs, what works for different […]
22 March 2017
Presented by Dr Cathy Stone 2016 Equity Fellow, the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education Dr Cathy Stone, from the University of Newcastle, is a 2016 Equity Fellow and a 2017 Visiting Research Fellow with the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education. Cathy has had many years’ experience in developing and […]
9 February 2017