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Post : Building quality graduates from ALL backgrounds
Written by Mel Henry (Manager, Student Equity & Diversity, Curtin University) and Dr Caroline Gopalkrishnan (Project Coordinator, Access, Curtin University) A spate of articles has recently emerged in the Australian media with several university and industry spokespersons expressing concerns over the presumed negative effects of lowering university entry ranks, in response to Government’s demand-driven model […]
18 October 2013
Editorial, Featured
Post : Skilled for Life? Key findings from the survey of adult skills
A new OECD report released today states that what people know, and what they do with what they know, impacts significantly on their life chances. The ‘Skilled for Life? Key findings from the survey of adults skill’ report is a product of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIACC). The report details […]
9 October 2013
Featured, General, Low SES
Post : Young people, employment and the Coalition’s regional challenge
Written by Associate Professor Lucas Walsh for The Conversation The Coalition government has begun its term in office with some controversial policy proposals related to Australia’s international engagement. These include cuts to international aid, hardline responses to asylum seekers and, less controversially, revisiting the Colombo Plan. They reflect a series of tensions arising in Australia’s […]
1 October 2013
General, Regional, rural and remote
Post : RREAC schools tour brings up education issues
L-R: RREAC Executive Officer Emmy Terry; NCSEHE Director Professor Sue Trinidad; Great Southern Development Commission CEO Bruce Manning and RREAC Chair Hon. Brian Ellis, MLC Member for the Agricultural Region The Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council recently spent three days touring the Great Southern region, in order to gain insight and feedback into the […]
14 September 2013
General, Low SES, Regional, rural and remote
Post : The Other Election
A student from AIME’s Curtin University program has made it into the top 100 in AIME’s The Other Election campaign, dedicated to finding Australia’s first Indigenous Prime Minister. Kearyn Cox, a year 11 student from Guildford Grammar School in Western Australia, is currently sitting at 7th place nationally. Should Kearyn win enough votes this week […]
14 September 2013
Indigenous
Post : A low target: enrolling poor uni students remains a challenge
Written by Dr Tim Pitman for The Conversation According to the Federal Government, Australian public universities need to be more inclusive, particularly when it comes to enrolling poorer students. They’ve set a target to have 20% of undergraduate students enrolled in our universities from low socio-economic status (SES) backgrounds by the year 2020. There’s much […]
14 September 2013
Editorial, Low SES
Post : Can aptitude tests pick the ‘right’ students for university?
Written by Dr Tim Pitman for The Conversation Since 2007, the Australian government has been evaluating a pilot aptitude test for future university students. The test is meant to help universities select students who might have the ability to undertake tertiary education but who got bad scores at the end of high school. The result […]
14 September 2013
Editorial, Low SES