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School factors helping disadvantaged students to succeed: empirical evidence from four Italian cities

Added 9 February 2016 by ncsehe

Written by Tommaso Agasisti, Mara Soncin & Riccardo Valenti 1. MOTIVATION, BACKGROUND AND RESEARCH QUESTION A key challenge for policy-makers is to ensure that a country’s education system ...

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Avoiding the manufacture of ‘sameness’: first-in-family students, cultural capital and the higher education environment

Added 19 October 2015 by ncsehe

Written by Dr Sarah O’ Shea, University of Wollongong ABSTRACT Drawing upon Bourdieu’s theories of social and cultural capital, a number of studies of the higher education environment have ...

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‘Low income doesn’t mean stupid and destined for failure’: challenging the deficit discourse around students from low SES backgrounds in higher education

Added 22 September 2015 by ncsehe

Written by Jade McKay and Marcia Devlin ABSTRACT The discourse around students from low socio-economic backgrounds often adopts a deficit conception in which these students are seen as a ...

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Investigating First Year Education Students’ Stress Level

Added 23 June 2015 by ncsehe

Written by Gretchen Geng and Richard Milford, Charles Darwin University ABSTRACT This paper investigated the stress levels of first-year education students who undertake teaching practicum and ...

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Socioeconomic status and the career aspirations of Australian school students: Testing enduring assumptions

Added 4 May 2015 by ncsehe

Written by Jennifer Gore, Kathryn Holmes, Max Smith, Erica Southgate and Jim Albright, School of Education, The University of Newcastle Australia ABSTRACT Recent Australian government ...

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A scholarship of social inclusion in higher education: why we need it and what it should look like

Added 10 April 2015 by ncsehe

Written by Dr Hannah Forsyth, Australian Catholic University, and Annette Cairnduff, University of Sydney Even though we’re only a few kilometres away from Sydney University, our students had ...

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Promoting low socio-economic participation in higher education: a comparison of area-based and individual measures

Added 19 March 2015 by ncsehe

Written by Associate Professor Alfred M. Dockery, Richard Seymour and Paul Koshy, NCSEHE INTRODUCTION Australian policy-makers have long recognised the need for Australia to increase the ...

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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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