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Article for The Journal of Child Psychiatry and Psychology, co-authored by NCSEHE Adjunct Fellow Dr Lynette Vernon (Edith Cowan University). Kathryn L. Modecki (Griffith University), Samantha Low‐Choy (Griffith University), Bep N. Uink (Murdoch University), Lynette Vernon (NCSEHE and Edith Cowan University), Helen Correia (Murdoch University) and Kylie Andrews (ABC) Abstract Background Concerns have been […]
7 July 2020
Jenny Ostini, Helen Partridge, Kate Kelly, Sue Owen and Sandra Jefferies. Published in Student Success Published online 26 May 2020 Abstract This article examines the narratives that drive university staff understanding of the concerns and experiences of regional and remote students at five universities in Australia. Interviews were conducted with thirty university staff members over […]
4 June 2020
Briefing Note written by Paul Koshy, National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE) Introduction The new NCSEHE Equity Briefing Note is now available. It reports on undergraduate student data collected by the Department of Education, Skills and Employment (DESE). These data are also reported on the NCSEHE Student Equity Data Page. The page […]
18 May 2020
Director’s Report by Professor Sue Trinidad The NCSEHE had another productive year in 2019—as evidenced here in our sixth Annual Report—continuing to provide a strong networking function between student equity policymakers, researchers and practitioners. The Centre has—under the new contract from the Australian Government Department of Education, Skills and Employment for 2019–21—continued its operations to […]
7 May 2020
Catherine Drane¹, Lynette Vernon² and Sarah O’Shea¹ ¹National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education — Curtin University ²School of Education — Edith Cowan University Executive Summary This review provides an overview of current approaches to managing school closures as well as recent literature related to young people learning “outside of school”. A range of […]
28 April 2020
Thesis written by Melanie Henry Abstract Online higher education presents a critical opportunity to extend and diversify the student body. The Online Student Experience (OSE), and online student outcomes, however, remain shrouded in ambiguity. The literature presents conflicting reports of online education (OE) quality, confounded by a lack of appreciation for potential differences between online […]
6 April 2020
Kitty Drok for the NCSEHE In 2014, the NCSEHE provided funding to La Trobe University’s Centre for Higher Education Equity and Diversity Research (CHEEDR; then known as the Access and Achievement Research Unit, or AARU) to map the Australian higher education sector in relation to people from out-of-home care backgrounds, including kinship care, foster care […]
4 March 2020
2019 NCSEHE Research Fellowship final report Sarah O’Shea, University of Wollongong Executive summary This report details the findings and recommendations from the NCSEHE Research Fellowship entitled ‘Mind the Gap!’ Exploring the post-graduation outcomes and employment mobility of individuals who are first in their family to complete a university degree. This one-year study explored how learners […]
21 January 2020
Paul Koshy, National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education Introduction This NCSEHE briefing note reports on domestic undergraduate equity student participation in Australian higher education from 2013 to 2018. It focuses on trends among domestic undergraduate enrolments in Table A Provider institutions in identified equity groups: Low socioeconomic status (Low SES) students Students with […]
17 December 2019
Fiona Shalley, James Smith, Denise Wood, Bronwyn Fredericks, Kim Robertson and Steven Larkin Charles Darwin University, CQUniversity, The University of Queensland and The University of Newcastle Executive summary Data shows that Indigenous higher education students have lower access, participation and completion rates compared with non-Indigenous students. Indigenous students from regional and remote areas face additional challenges […]
17 December 2019