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Dr Alfred Masinire, Lecturer at the University of Witwatersrand (“Wits”) in Johannesburg, South Africa, was recently in Australia to attend the 2014 SPERA conference. We took the opportunity to speak with Alfred about his journey into higher education, his role at Wits, and his research on incentives used to attract teachers to rural schools. NCSEHE: Please […]
4 December 2014
Brian O’Neil is principal of Calen District State College in Queensland and recently-appointed President of the Society for the Provision of Education in Rural Australia (SPERA). We recently caught up with Brian at the 30th National SPERA Conference and spoke to him about his work at Calen, SPERA’s role in the education sector, and his […]
30 October 2014
The Australian Government recently announced a new approach to engaging and supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in priority areas, including children and schooling, employment, and safety and wellbeing. The new approach, the Indigenous Advancement Strategy (IAS), began on 1 July 2014 and replaces more than 150 individual programmes and activities with five flexible […]
22 August 2014
Small Town Culture, a music group aiming to capture the spirit and uniqueness of life in the country, is an initiative funded by the University of Southern Queensland (USQ) dedicated to raising the aspirations of regional and remote students. Australian country music singer/songwriter, Josh Arnold, has been working with USQ since 2012, visiting schools in […]
31 July 2014
Written by Tim Pitman for The Conversation The 2013 student data has been released, which includes information on access for groups of students under-represented in higher education. Lately, most of the attention has been on students from low socio-economic backgrounds, and whether or not the implementation of the demand driven system – or uncapping the […]
28 July 2014
A recent study in Central Queensland of over 200 low- and mid-SES secondary school students suggested that schools are very influential in students’ decision-making about their higher education (HE) futures, with 59% of students suggesting that the views of their teachers were important or extremely important in this context.1 Other studies have noted that between […]
22 July 2014
It is recognised that regional and remote Indigenous students are under-represented in both higher education and vocational education and training. While there is general agreement that bridging or enabling education courses and programs are important in lifting participation rates and potentially in encouraging mobility between the sectors, there is a clear lack of evidence underpinning […]
15 May 2014
Summer Schools build upon students’ potential to succeed in years 10, 11 and 12 Description The AIM High Program at the University of Newcastle builds on a successful institutional history of supporting students from a range of backgrounds to achieve a university education. Two established components of AIM High are the separate five-day residential […]
30 April 2014
Written by Professor Sue Trinidad, NCSEHE Director, and Mel Henry, Curtin University Manager Corporate Values & Equity The Federal Government’s Review of the Demand Driven System report (released 13 April 2014), has strongly endorsed the current demand-driven funding system that enables students from under-represented backgrounds to access higher education, a result welcomed by the NCSEHE […]
17 April 2014
Greater retention and success results when students enter university well informed about how university will assist them to achieve their goals Description Access to the professions through higher education for LSES secondary school students across Victoria is the aim of the Learn, Experience, Access Professions (LEAP) program. LEAP adopts a consortium approach of coordinated […]
12 March 2014