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Recognition and accountability: sole parent postgraduates in university conditions

Added 23 February 2015 by ncsehe

Written by Genine A. Hook ABSTRACT This paper aims to examine some of the ways sole parents sought recognition as postgraduate students in Australian universities. Judith Butler’s theory of ...

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Eyes on the future: The impact of a university campus experience day on students from financially disadvantaged backgrounds

Added 6 February 2015 by ncsehe

Written by Michele J Fleming and Diana M Grace, University of Canberra ABSTRACT Students from financially disadvantaged backgrounds, rural areas, non-English speaking backgrounds and those who ...

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Does accelerating access to higher education lower its quality? The Australian experience

Added 3 February 2015 by ncsehe

Written by Tim Pitman, Paul Koshy and John Phillimore, National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE) INTRODUCTION In the pursuit of mass higher education, fears are often ...

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The private rate of return to a university degree in Australia

Added 14 January 2015 by ncsehe

Written by Anne Daly, Phil Lewis, Michael Corliss and Tiffany Heaslip, Centre for Labour Market Research, University of Canberra ABSTRACT This article presents estimates of the private monetary ...

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Unlocking the gates to the peasants: are policies of ‘fairness’ or ‘inclusion’ more important for equity in higher education?

Added 11 December 2014 by ncsehe

Written by Tim Pitman, National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education INTRODUCTION The idea of social equity has been a recurrent theme in public policies relating to Australian higher ...

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Understanding ‘fairness’ in student selection: are there differences and does it make a difference anyway?

Added 20 November 2014 by ncsehe

Written by Tim Pitman, National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education INTRODUCTION It is a fundamental tenet of public policy that participation in higher education is characterised by ...

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Reinterpreting higher education quality in response to policies of mass education: the Australian experience

Added 17 November 2014 by ncsehe

Written by Dr Tim Pitman, National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education INTRODUCTION Democratic access to tertiary education is one of the most persistent policy issues in higher ...

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Closing the policy–practice gap for low-SES students in higher education: the pedagogical challenge

Added 4 November 2014 by ncsehe

Written by Dr Glyn Thomas (University of Queensland) ABSTRACT This paper reports on an interpretivist research study that sought to articulate the strategies being adopted by selected ...

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Just Imaginary: delimiting social inclusion in higher education

Added 2 September 2014 by ncsehe

Written by Professor Trevor Gale (Deakin University) and Dr Steven Hodge (Griffith University) ABSTRACT This paper explores the notion of a ‘just imaginary’ for social inclusion in higher ...

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‘Miraculous exceptions’: what can autobiography tell us about why some disadvantaged students succeed in higher education?

Added 19 May 2014 by ncsehe

Written by Dr Tim Pitman, National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education ABSTRACT This study examines the use of the autobiographical research method, where information is gathered from a ...

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