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Written by Dr Joanne Lisciandro, Dr Angela Jones and Dr Karin Strehlow, Murdoch University Background and Context The burden of mental health issues on university students and their ability to successfully access, transition and participate in university has been recurrent in contemporary educational discourse (Cleary, Walter, & Jackson, 2011; Said, Kypri, & Bowman, 2013). This […]
14 November 2016
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Education is transformative. Education delivers benefits to individuals, their families and communities. It is this far-reaching impact that compels research into understanding why people from low-socio economic status (SES) backgrounds are under-represented in tertiary education, and finding new ways to address this situation. This position paper reviews what is currently known about interventions […]
25 October 2016
Briefing Note written by Paul Koshy, National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE) Introduction This NCSEHE Briefing Note provides an update on domestic undergraduate student enrolment and equity outcomes from 2008 to 2015, following Koshy and Seymour (2015). In keeping with the earlier editions of this series, the briefing note focuses on undergraduate […]
17 October 2016
17 October 2016
Written by Dr Neal Dreamson, Associate Professor Gary Thomas, Professor Anita Lee Hong and Ms Soyoung Kim (Queensland University of Technology) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A Learning Management System (LMS) such as Blackboard, Moodle and Web City has been utilised for enhancing the quality of learning and teaching in Australian universities. Yet there are no specific university […]
7 October 2016
1 September 2016
Students from Indigenous backgrounds who also have disability are doubly disadvantaged at university and require better and more culturally appropriate support, new research shows. Funded by the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE) and led by researchers from the University of Canberra, the study examined data collected by the Australian Government Department […]
1 September 2016
Written by Associate Professor Michele Fleming and Dr Diana Grace (University of Canberra) INTRODUCTION The purpose of the report is to provide an understanding of the numbers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students with disability in Australian higher education and the support they currently receive. Further, the report provides a series of recommendations for […]
1 September 2016
Research into the labour market outcomes of university students from disadvantaged backgrounds in Australia has found that students from low SES backgrounds and from rural, regional and remote locations tend to experience comparable labour market outcomes to those of their privileged peers. They are just as likely to find jobs that utilise their qualifications and […]
30 August 2016
Equity students who enter university via enabling programs generally experience better first-year retention rates than those entering via most other sub-bachelor pathways, a new study led by the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE) has found. Dr Tim Pitman said the research, which included a survey of 2,593 students from 11 universities […]
25 July 2016