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Written by Dr Hannah Forsyth, Australian Catholic University, and Annette Cairnduff, University of Sydney Even though we’re only a few kilometres away from Sydney University, our students had never been there and it was all very foreign to them. (Teacher, Inner Sydney, 2010) Universities in Australia have recently increased their efforts to widen participation (Gale […]
10 April 2015
Janet Buchan, Kristin Wicking, John Smithson and Melanie Birks James Cook University Introduction This Guide provides practical strategies to guide the design of active learning experiences in complex, multi-campus and distributed university learning environments. The title of the Guide describes the aspirational purpose that grounded a project to address the needs of regional Australian learners. […]
7 April 2015
Written by Associate Professor Alfred M. Dockery, Richard Seymour and Paul Koshy, NCSEHE INTRODUCTION Australian policy-makers have long recognised the need for Australia to increase the proportion of its population gaining a university qualification. The Review of Australian Higher Education (the Bradley Review) completed in 2008 argued that achieving this would require increasing participation rates […]
19 March 2015
Written by Dr Chi Baik, Dr Ryan Naylor and Associate Professor Sophie Arkoudis, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report provides an analysis of trends over a twenty year period in the attitudes and experiences of first year students in Australian universities. It is based on the national survey of […]
19 March 2015
Written by Pam Sammons, Katalin Toth & Kathy Sylva, University of Oxford Department of Education INTRODUCTION Economic and educational inequalities continue to hinder social mobility and decrease the chances of poor children achieving the same levels of academic success as their more advantaged peers. There is considerable evidence that an educational equity gap exists across […]
19 March 2015
Written by Dr Andrew Harvey, Dr Patricia McNamara, Lisa Andrewartha and Michael Luckman, Access & Achievement Research Unit, La Trobe University EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Around 40,000 Australian children are estimated to require out-of-home care in Australia and this number has risen every year over the past decade (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2014a). Young people […]
10 March 2015
Written by Michele J Fleming and Diana M Grace, University of Canberra ABSTRACT Students from financially disadvantaged backgrounds, rural areas, non-English speaking backgrounds and those who are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, have traditionally been underrepresented in higher education in Australia. The UC 4 Yourself experience day is an outreach program by the University of […]
6 February 2015
Written by Tim Pitman, Paul Koshy and John Phillimore, National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE) INTRODUCTION In the pursuit of mass higher education, fears are often expressed that ‘quantity’ increases at the expense of ‘quality’ (Hawkins & Neubauer, 2011). The case of the Australian higher education sector is salient, for in many […]
3 February 2015
Written by Professor Gail Whiteford and Professor Sue Trinidad, National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education BACKGROUND Higher Education in Australia has, for the last decade, been subject to a multiplicity of agendas through successive governments. This has had several impacts, many of which are beyond the scope of this paper to discuss, however […]
20 January 2015
Written by Anne Daly, Phil Lewis, Michael Corliss and Tiffany Heaslip, Centre for Labour Market Research, University of Canberra ABSTRACT This article presents estimates of the private monetary benefits in Australia associated with the completion of Bachelor degrees for a range of fields of study under a range of different assumptions. For the average person, […]
14 January 2015