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On Thursday 26 May 2016, three American Council on Education (ACE) Fellows, Professor Joanne Goodell, Professor Janelle Chiasera and Dr Rosalee Rush, visited the NCSEHE to learn about student equity in higher education in Australian university administration. The Fellows had previously been to Western Sydney University, the University of Technology, Sydney, The University of Sydney, […]
8 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
Equity students who enter university via enabling programs generally experience better first-year retention rates than those entering via most other sub-bachelor pathways, a new study led by the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE) has found. Dr Tim Pitman said the research, which included a survey of 2,593 students from 11 universities […]
25 July 2016
The Catalyst Clemente program at Edith Cowan University is an innovative university education program delivered in partnership with the St Vincent de Paul Society WA and funded by the Australian Government Department of Education and Training’s Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Programme (HEPPP). The program teaches humanities and arts subjects to adults who may not […]
21 July 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
It is with great pleasure that we launch our second research publication, Informing Policy and Practice II: 2015 Student Equity in Higher Education Research Grants Program Projects, at the 2016 Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia Inc (HERDSA) Conference held at the Rydges Esplanade Hotel in Fremantle, Western Australia. Informing Policy and Practice […]
5 July 2016
The Australian Government Department of Education and Training (“the Department”) is funding an Equity Fellows Programme (“the Programme”) under the Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Programme (HEPPP). The National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE) at Curtin University has been charged with managing the Programme. Six Fellowships will be awarded between 2015 and […]
1 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
Written by Paul Koshy, NCSEHE Research Fellow, and Dr Nadine Zacharias, NCSEHE 2016 Equity Fellow The 25th European Access Network Conference opened on Sunday 29 May at the University College, Dublin (UCD), under the title “Retrospective for Perspective,” looking backwards over 25 years but also forward to the next 25. The Chair of the EAN […]
14 June 2016
Written by 2016 Office for Learning and Teaching Fellow, Associate Professor Sarah O’ Shea, University of Wollongong Overview In 2015, I was fortunate enough to receive an OLT Teaching Fellowship, which allowed me to continue working with students who are first in the family to come to university. The Engaging Families to Engage Students (EFEL) fellowship […]
8 June 2016