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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
Written by Dr Tim Pitman and Professor Sue Trinidad (NCSEHE), Professor Marcia Devlin (Federation University Australia), Dr Andrew Harvey and Mr Matt Brett (La Trobe University), and Dr Jade McKay (Deakin University) BACKGROUND This report details the findings of the Enabling programmes for disadvantaged student groups project, which was funded as part of the Australian […]
24 July 2016
24 July 2016
The National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education invites you to attend a presentation by Dr Carla Houkamau from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. About the presentation Mounting evidence suggests racism contributes to Māori disadvantage in New Zealand. This perspective changes the focus of attention from Māori social and economic problems to the […]
21 July 2016
Did you know that over half of Australia’s university students are the first in their families to attend? And that over a quarter of them consider leaving in their first year? Or, that during the difficult times, students are more likely to turn to family (or their community) for support? If you’d like to: learn […]
19 July 2016
Foreword by Professor Sue Trinidad and Professor John Phillimore — NCSEHE Program Leaders The issues facing disadvantaged students wanting a tertiary education are multi-faceted. Being accepted into a course at university is the first of many hurdles that a student must overcome to complete their degree. University cohorts are also increasingly diverse and require different […]
5 July 2016
It is with great pleasure that we launch our second research publication, Informing Policy and Practice II: 2015 Student Equity in Higher Education Research Grants Program Projects, at the 2016 Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia Inc (HERDSA) Conference held at the Rydges Esplanade Hotel in Fremantle, Western Australia. Informing Policy and Practice […]
5 July 2016
20 June 2016
Written by Dr Tim Pitman for The Conversation The Group of Eight (Go8), which represents Australia’s elite universities, has called for university places to be recapped, saying that the demand-driven system has failed to sufficiently boost numbers of disadvantaged students entering higher education – one of its primary goals – and therefore the additional cost […]
20 June 2016
Written by Paul Koshy, NCSEHE Research Fellow, and Dr Nadine Zacharias, NCSEHE 2016 Equity Fellow The 25th European Access Network Conference opened on Sunday 29 May at the University College, Dublin (UCD), under the title “Retrospective for Perspective,” looking backwards over 25 years but also forward to the next 25. The Chair of the EAN […]
14 June 2016