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Associate Professor James Smith is the Program Manager for the HEPPP-WCE initiative within the Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor for Indigenous Leadership at Charles Darwin University, a role that involves working with six remote Indigenous communities to build aspiration, expectation and capacity to participate in higher education. James recently spent a week at the NCSEHE […]
25 June 2015
The AIME program addresses educational inequity through a mentoring program designed to improve high school completion rates of Indigenous students DESCRIPTION The collaborative research partnership between the University of Wollongong and the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME), an Indigenous community organisation, has grown from internal university funding to national funding. This mutually beneficial partnership […]
22 June 2015
The success of the partnership can be credited to shared goals, enthusiasm and commitment to the program DESCRIPTION Small Town Culture is a music label developed by Josh Arnold, an accomplished singer and song-writer, and supported by the University of Southern Queensland, to enable students from schools and communities in LSES, rural and remote […]
17 June 2015
Australian higher education equity policy currently focuses on access and participation, with the implicit assumption being that disadvantage will be ameliorated through educational achievement. Less is known, however, as to whether patterns of disadvantage continue post-completion. A new research project led by Dr Sarah Richardson, ACER, in collaboration with Curtin University’s Professor Dawn Bennett and […]
11 June 2015
It was important to the students to create a unique identity, which made rowing their own and to which all partners could be invited DESCRIPTION Row AHEAD engages students from Clontarf Aboriginal College in a program of self-development through the sport of rowing. Students take part in weekly training sessions, with the aim of […]
9 June 2015
Research conducted by the NCSEHE in late 2014 into scholarship provision in Australian universities identified a lack of knowledge around leading practice in scholarship design to improve the retention and success of disadvantaged students. Similarly, there is a lack of comparative data on the influence of scholarships on educational retention and success, and only a […]
4 June 2015
The experiential nature of the creative imagining of a narrative and depiction of the story arc using digital technology results in increased technical and production skills for the students involved DESCRIPTION Since 2010, The University of Sydney’s Compass – your way to higher education program (Compass) has been delivering Film Production and Stop Motion […]
2 June 2015
Written by Nick Parr, Macquarie University, for The Conversation Higher education is a major determinant of a population’s knowledge and skills, workforce participation, employment, incomes, economic growth, immigration, family formation, and of the educational attainment and future prosperity of subsequent generations. The percentage of Australia’s population with a Bachelor’s degree is high by international standards. […]
25 May 2015
Pathways to Success aims to raise aspirations and expose pathways to higher education among Aboriginal people, and people of low socio-economic status DESCRIPTION The University of Tasmania aims to increase participation in higher education and enable current and future students, families and communities to engage with career possibilities aligned with Tasmania’s industries of the […]
25 May 2015
Both organisations share a commitment to breaking down barriers to higher education for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples DESCRIPTION The Aspiration Initiative (TAI) aims to increase support and opportunities for Indigenous Australian students, helping them realise their potential at school, university and beyond. TAI projects include international scholarships, the Indigenous Scholarships website, the […]
21 May 2015