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Research into the labour market outcomes of university students from disadvantaged backgrounds in Australia has found that students from low SES backgrounds and from rural, regional and remote locations tend to experience comparable labour market outcomes to those of their privileged peers. They are just as likely to find jobs that utilise their qualifications and […]
30 August 2016
The 2014 proposal by the Australian federal government to deregulate fees in the country’s universities has generated passionate debates. Discussions on higher education funding have largely been dominated by capital market and social justice ideologies, the latter of which support the expansion of higher education as a means of promoting and widening participation and equal […]
3 August 2016
Professor Penny Jane Burke and Dr Anna Bennett from the University of Newcastle, Australia have successfully secured a grant that will investigate the notion and impact of ‘time’ for students in higher education. Funded by the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education, Professor Burke and Dr Bennett will work with Co-Investigator Dr Jacqueline […]
13 July 2016
Written by Dr Tim Pitman for The Conversation The Group of Eight (Go8), which represents Australia’s elite universities, has called for university places to be recapped, saying that the demand-driven system has failed to sufficiently boost numbers of disadvantaged students entering higher education – one of its primary goals – and therefore the additional cost […]
20 June 2016
The 2008 Bradley Review of Higher Education stated that regional students are under-represented in higher education when compared to their urban peers. Reasons for this disparity have been debated in Australian higher education research and include: the distance from home to university attachment to their home, family and friends, for students who would have to […]
10 May 2016
A new study that examines labour market outcomes of more than 10,700 disadvantaged Australian university graduates has found graduates from low socio-economic backgrounds and regional and remote areas have employment outcomes comparable to graduates from more privileged backgrounds. The study, led by Assistant Professor Ian Li, from The University of Western Australia’s School of Population […]
8 March 2016
Nathan Watts is a final year Bachelor of Education (Secondary) and Associates Degree in Adult and Vocational Education student, studying at Queensland University of Technology and Charles Sturt University, respectively. He is the Director of Faculty Magazine: Online Magazine for Australian Educators, a digital publication now in its third year and reaching educators across Australia. […]
8 March 2016
Written by Bronwyn Fredericks, Carolyn Daniels and Susan Kinnear for The Conversation “The more we’re going to get into these universities, the more we’re going to get educated, which means the more the … Indigenous communities themselves are going to grow and close that gap.” – A study participant in Rockhampton, Queensland. Across Australia, Indigenous […]
11 February 2016
Research funded by the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE) at Curtin University has investigated equity groups and predictors of academic success in higher education, with particular focus on the influence of first in family (FiF) status, socio-economic and demographic contributors to the academic outcomes of students enrolled in a large regional […]
8 October 2015
The transition into higher education can be a challenge for students at the best of times. Not only must they navigate university administrative processes, increased study loads, and unfamiliar academic terminologies, but there are also lifestyle matters to negotiate. How do you balance your study load with your social and family commitments? Can you access […]
2 September 2015