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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
The 2008 Bradley Review of Higher Education stated that regional students are under-represented in higher education when compared to their urban peers. Reasons for this disparity have been debated in Australian higher education research and include: the distance from home to university attachment to their home, family and friends, for students who would have to […]
10 May 2016
A new study that examines labour market outcomes of more than 10,700 disadvantaged Australian university graduates has found graduates from low socio-economic backgrounds and regional and remote areas have employment outcomes comparable to graduates from more privileged backgrounds. The study, led by Assistant Professor Ian Li, from The University of Western Australia’s School of Population […]
8 March 2016
Written by Assistant Professor Ian W. Li (The University of Western Australia), Dr Stephané Mahuteau (National Institute of Labour Studies (NILS), Flinders University), Associate Professor Alfred Michael Dockery (Curtin University), Emeritus Professor P.N. (Raja) Junankar (UNSW Australia) & Professor Kostas Mavromaras (NILS) INTRODUCTION The Australian higher education sector has had a number of changes in […]
8 March 2016
8 March 2016
Nathan Watts is a final year Bachelor of Education (Secondary) and Associates Degree in Adult and Vocational Education student, studying at Queensland University of Technology and Charles Sturt University, respectively. He is the Director of Faculty Magazine: Online Magazine for Australian Educators, a digital publication now in its third year and reaching educators across Australia. […]
8 March 2016
11 February 2016
Written by Bronwyn Fredericks, Carolyn Daniels and Susan Kinnear for The Conversation “The more we’re going to get into these universities, the more we’re going to get educated, which means the more the … Indigenous communities themselves are going to grow and close that gap.” – A study participant in Rockhampton, Queensland. Across Australia, Indigenous […]
11 February 2016
Written by Professor Bronwyn Fredericks, Dr Susan Kinnear, Ms Carolyn Daniels, Dr Pamela CroftWarcon and Ms Julie Mann, CQUniversity Australia FOREWORD In Australia, regional and remote Indigenous students are under‐represented in both higher education and vocational education and training. Access (or enabling) education programs are important in lifting participation rates and potentially in encouraging mobility […]
11 February 2016
Research funded by the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE) at Curtin University has investigated equity groups and predictors of academic success in higher education, with particular focus on the influence of first in family (FiF) status, socio-economic and demographic contributors to the academic outcomes of students enrolled in a large regional […]
8 October 2015