Managing director and founder of Equity by Design Dr Nadine Zacharias joins Vygo co-CEO Ben Hallett to explore technical, operational and leadership issues in response to unfolding details of the Support Amendment Bill.  This is a critical and timely conversation within ...

“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.” ― W.C. Fields From my own university experience, I figured Fields’ quote made a lot of sense: those who perform well ...

Although many universities are no longer the elitist institutions they may have once been, there is little doubt that for some students – particularly those from disadvantaged or “equity” backgrounds – they still present a rigid “framework” that can detrimentally affect their ...

I have been worried for some time about the concept of equity and how it is usually understood in relation to schooling. It seems to me to be very strange that family income, as one indicator, can determine how children ...

“As a uni student who just moved out of home, being able to pay rent as well as survive without a job or parental help was my biggest stress ... the availability of jobs to uni students, especially new ones ...

They were a suitably contrarian trio. Professor Glyn Davis, vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne, Sophie Johnston, president of the National Union of Students, and Andrew Norton, higher education program director at the Grattan Institute, graced the stage at the ...

On the fifth anniversary of the demand-driven university quota system, introduced by Julia Gillard’s Labor government, there are mixed feelings about its efficacy. On the one hand, Conor King, executive director of the Innovative Research Universities (IRU), claims it’s a ...

At Central Queensland University (CQUniversity), it’s been a big year for opening and developing new sites to grant ever-expanding access. I grew up in Northamptonshire in the UK. Both my parents had left school when they were young, because of ...

The lives of non-traditional students underscore the societal benefits, and necessity, of open pathways to higher education. Who succeeds in higher education? Not me, aged 20. That year, my second at Otago University, was at once memorable and forgettable, because ...

As a teenager, University of Adelaide vice-chancellor professor Warren Bebbington thought he would leave high school at the earliest opportunity and start an apprenticeship. Bebbington’s father also assumed this, as he left high school at age 14. It wasn’t until ...