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Aspire UWA supports students with academic potential, but facing significant challenges, to achieve their higher education goals Description Through formalised partnerships with 21 secondary schools in metropolitan Perth and 31 regional and remote schools across Western Australia, the university and school communities are working together to address traditionally low transfer rates to higher education. […]
3 February 2014
Thesis written by Dr Marianne McLaughlin ABSTRACT Aboriginal students will often approach their teacher with the biggest and most beautiful smile. That smile, if it could be verbalised, asks the teacher to ‘learn me’. Non-Aboriginal teachers may find that crossing cultural borders, between their own worldview and that of the Aboriginal students’ can be a […]
31 January 2014
National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE) Briefing Note written by Paul Koshy, Curtin University INTRODUCTION This NCSEHE Briefing Note reports on recent trends in student enrolment in Australian higher education in key equity groups. Specifically, it reports on the number of domestic undergraduates between 2007 and 2012 in the 38 ‘Table A […]
24 January 2014
An exhibition of artworks by Indigenous and non-Indigenous prisoners from the Southern Queensland Correctional Centre The exhibition marks the launch of the Australian Government HEPPP-funded Making the Connection project which will create pathways into higher education for Indigenous and non-Indigenous students. The project demonstrates the University of Southern Queensland’s ongoing commitment to creating better outcomes […]
24 January 2014
National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE) Briefing Note written by Paul Koshy, Curtin University INTRODUCTION This NCSEHE Briefing Note reports on recent trends in student enrolment in Australian higher education in key equity groups. Specifically, it reports on the number of domestic undergraduates between 2007 and 2012 in the 38 ‘Table A […]
24 January 2014
The program is flexible in its approach so that we provide, relevant, community-driven and appropriate support and engagement Description James Cook University’s (JCU) Get Into Uni program is a major initiative in regional school and community engagement. It works with approximately 200 secondary and primary schools, and eight community ‘hubs’, to stimulate interest in […]
24 January 2014
Thirty curriculum units are live with over 700 students enrolled Description Into Uni is a three-year program at Charles Darwin University (CDU), funded by the HEPPP and run in partnership with Kormilda College in Darwin, and Centralian Senior College (CSC) and Centralian Middle School in Alice Springs (schools with significant numbers of Indigenous students). […]
20 January 2014
The I Belong senior years program has a student lifecycle and student cohort focus Description RMIT’s I Belong program addresses barriers of the city as alien and inaccessible to young people from LSES schools and communities, and the impact these have upon access and entry to pathways and professions. The I Belong middle years […]
17 January 2014
In partnership with the University of New England, School of Education and SiMERR National Research Centre, the theme for the 2014 National SPERA Conference is “3 Decades On: Reflections Upon Rural Education – Student Engagement, Aspirations & Motivation.” The conferences sub-themes will include: student engagement aspiration & motivation pre-service / higher education curriculum / pedagogy policy […]
8 January 2014
DARE focuses on building the aspirations of Indigenous students through face-to-face mentoring and engagement with parents, teachers and Indigenous communities Description The University of Southern Queensland’s DARE (Dream Aspire Reach Experience) Program aims to address the barriers related to participation in education for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The curriculum-based program focuses on […]
7 January 2014