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The University of Adelaide’s Humanities and Social Sciences faculty retention team designed an online module and delivered a live workshop to increase tutors’ understanding of best practices for supporting students from low SES backgrounds Description The University of Adelaide has one of the highest numbers of students from low SES backgrounds out of the […]
15 August 2014
Dr Helen Law, Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), was recently in Australia on a three-week Teaching and Learning fact-finding mission. While Helen was in Perth visiting Curtin, we took the opportunity to speak with her about her role at PolyU and the strategies in place within the university aimed at supporting students. […]
7 August 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
We first met Ali Zafar Mohammadi, Executive Director of Perth Multicultural Organisation (PMO), at the 2013 Equity Practitioners in Higher Education Australasia conference held at UWA. Ali sat on a panel of expert speakers, discussing community partnerships and the importance of education. Interested to learn more, we spoke with Ali about his work with PMO […]
10 July 2014
The Aim High program within Equity and Diversity at the University of Newcastle has experienced significant growth in program involvement for 2014. Belinda Munn, Equity and Diversity Manager, reports that participation numbers have already exceeded the 2013 figure by 10% with another two terms of program deliveries still to go. Aim High offers a suite of […]
4 July 2014
Improved educational outcomes are seen as a key lever for addressing the disadvantage faced by Indigenous Australians. While there have been some improvements in educational participation and achievement rates in recent years – for example, the year 12 apparent retention rate for Indigenous students has risen from 38.0% in 2002 to 51.1% in 2012 (Karmel […]
26 June 2014
The 2014-15 Federal Budget announced a number of significant proposed changes to higher education funding in Australia, including fee deregulation and a change to how interest is calculated on student loans (HECS-HELP). If passed, these proposals will mean more graduates will struggle to pay off their loan in full after graduating. This report outlines the […]
18 June 2014
Taking into account socioeconomic status, Aboriginality, rurality, and gender, a new NCSEHE-funded research project is investigating the impact of schools on educational aspirations and university entry. Professor Jenny Gore, Director of the Teachers and Teaching Research Program at the University of Newcastle, working alongside colleagues Dr Kathryn Holmes, Professor Max Smith, and PhD students Andrew […]
16 June 2014
In 2013, a cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional team led by Dr Jill Scevak, Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle, undertook the study Equity Groups and Predictors of Academic Success in Higher Education on predictors of academic outcomes for undergraduate students enrolled in a range of degrees. This study – referred to as “EPS” – aimed […]
2 June 2014