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University Life: Being, Becoming, Belonging is an invitation to all who shape and enhance the lives of students and colleagues through the development and delivery of teaching and learning programs within and beyond the classroom. This theme invites us all to reflect on the diverse roles that we play within our university communities. It is […]
19 January 2023
Prof. Dawn Bennett1, Dr. Jane Coffey2, Dr. Sherry Bawa2, Dr. David Carney3, Prof. Alfred M. Dockery2, Dr. Kathleen Franklyn2, Dr. Paul Koshy4, Dr. Ian W. Li5, Dr. Subhadarsini Parida2, & Unwin, Ms. Siobhan Unwin2 Executive summary This study examined low socioeconomic status (SES) students’ access to information about higher education study options, pathways, and careers […]
16 December 2022
Dr. Mollie Dollinger1, Dr. Andrew Harvey1, Dr. Ryan Naylor2, Dr. Marian Mahat3,Dr. Belinda D’Angelo1 Executive Summary Provision of equitable access to higher education has never been simple. Disparities continue despite over 25 years of ongoing and directed efforts in policy and practice to improve participation across equity groups (Burke, Bennett & Bunn, 2019; Harvey, Burnheim […]
7 December 2022
The opportunity for equitable access to employment options after completing a program of university study is the right of all students regardless of backgrounds or biographies. While Australia performs strongly in graduate outcomes generally (QILT, 2021) this workforce participation is not always evenly distributed across all student populations, notable differences have been recorded between equity […]
15 November 2022
This presentation draws on Associate Professor Nadine Zacharia’s research, practice and policy work over the past 10 years as well as insights from the recent World Higher Education Conference (WHEC2022) in Barcelona with the theme of Leave no one behind. Australia is one of the global success stories in increasing participation of equity group students […]
12 October 2022
The Indigenous Higher Education Curriculum Conference will be a two-day conference held at UTS on Tuesday 29 and Wednesday 30 November, 2022. The purpose of the conference is to highlight that Australian universities are progressively embedding Indigenous perspectives into higher education curriculum to provide students with Indigenous graduate attributes to work with and for Indigenous […]
14 September 2022
Guzyal Hill, Asia Pacific College of Business and Law, Charles Darwin University Aggie Wegner, Northern Territory Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security David Low, Asia Pacific College of Business and Law, Charles Darwin University Abstract With less than 100 registered Indigenous accountants in Australia compared to an estimated 200,000 non-Indigenous people in the field, […]
16 August 2022
Guzyal Hill and Alison Reedy, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia Joanne Forrest, Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education, Darwin, Australia Reuben Bolt, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia Abstract This is a case study of the Indigenous Pre-Accounting Enabling Program. With less than 100 self-identified Indigenous registered accountants in Australia, the accounting profession has capacity to […]
16 August 2022
“Hey, my kid is in year 12. What the hell is an ATAR?” NCSEHE PhD student Jaimey Facchin is hoping her research can equip parents and carers of First-in-Family (FiF) students to navigate the world of higher education and support FiF students across their educational journey. Following a career in equity student outreach, Jaimey elected […]
16 June 2022
16 June 2022