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The Australian Centre for Student Equity and Success (ACSES) will host its inaugural ‘Access, Achievement, Accord 2024: The Australian Student Equity Symposium’ in Sydney on 21-22 May 2024. The event will bring together university leaders, experts, policymakers, youth representatives and practitioners to discuss critical issues concerning student equity against a backdrop of the Australian Universities […]
4 April 2024
ACSES is hosting its inaugural ‘Access, Achievement, Accord 2024: The Australian Student Equity Symposium’ in Sydney on 21-22 May 2024. The event will bring together university leaders, experts, policymakers, youth representatives, and practitioners from the field of higher education to discuss crucial matters concerning student equity against a backdrop of the Australian Universities Accord final […]
26 March 2024
Anna Bennett, Ryan Naylor, Jo Hanley, Jo Lewis, Cheryl Burgess Executive Summary The Critical Interventions Framework Part 3 (CIF 3) focuses on evaluative studies which provide details of the impacts of specific interventions on equity groups in relation to access to and success in higher education. The CIF 3 provides three major tools: an Equity Initiatives Impact Studies […]
26 March 2024
The National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE) at Curtin University today announced First Nations Fellowships for 2024 have been awarded to Dr Tracy Woodroffe at Charles Darwin University, Dr Darren Garvey at The University of Queensland, and Professor Peter Anderson at Griffith University. Dr Tracy Woodroffe’s project, Increasing the number of Aboriginal […]
20 December 2023
The National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education is pleased to announce 10 proposals have been selected for funding as part of NCSEHE’s Small Grants Research Program, for a total funding amount of AUD469,227. This year, the Centre received 72 applications in total, which were assessed by NCSEHE’s Grants and Fellowships Committee before being […]
13 December 2023
Yesterday, National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education Executive Director Professor Shamit Saggar took part in the Diversity and Innovation Tech Fest 2023 at Perth Town Hall. Speaking on “Diversity in Innovation: Nurturing an Inclusive Ecosystem” along with fellow panellists Associate Professor Parwinder Kaur, Hon. Stephen Dawson MLC, Danelle Cross, Kay Solanki, and US […]
5 December 2023
Last week, NCSEHE’s Shamit Saggar and Miriam Fisher attended the 2023 Engagement Australia International Conference at Western Sydney University’s Parramatta South campus, the central theme of which was, “Engaged Universities – The next 20 years.” Conference discussions delved deeply into the impending Australian Universities Accord and provided numerous insights that resonated across the higher education […]
24 November 2023
Garth Stahl, The University of Queensland; Braden Hill, Edith Cowan University; Himanshu Gupta, Flinders University; James Smith, Flinders University, and Samuel Moore, Menzies School of Health Research One of the top priorities of the Universities Accord process it to improve access to university in Australia, particularly for those from underrepresented groups. This is particularly so […]
17 November 2023
Garth Stahl, School of Education, University of Queensland Sarah McDonald, Education Futures, University of South Australia Jennifer Stokes, Education Futures, University of South Australia Abstract The underrepresentation of boys from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australian universities continues despite recent gains in widening participation. This article presents a case study documenting the transition […]
15 November 2023
Equity Promotion Initiatives Across the World Edited by Jamil Salmi and containing chapters by Nasima Badsha, Kata Orosz, Nidhi S. Sabharwal, Renato H. L. Pedrosa, Gerry Postiglione, Jamil Salmi, Andrée Sursock, N. V. Varghese, Nadine Zacharias Preface Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. -Nelson Mandela In a […]
10 October 2023