Low-SES
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Practical help for the disadvantaged
To help students from low socio-economic backgrounds do their best universities need to engage with them and their teachers rather…
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Breaking out of the unskilled cycle
If society is ready to subsidise contraception for young mums it should also help with their education, writes Stuart Middleton.…
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Low ATARs will not hit standards say VCs
Suggestions that lowering university entry scores will result in a reduction in academic standards are wrong, say the vice-chancellors of…
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Feeding the knowledge economy
Throwing open the gates to thousands more university students is an historic moment in higher education, but as always, the…
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UK elite fare badly on widening access
Almost all the UK’s Russell Group universities have failed to reach independently set levels for admitting pupils from state schools…
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Poorer universities – and TAFE – at risk in demand system
Australia’s regional and newer universities have been put at risk of extinction by the recently introduced demand driven funding system,…
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Poor doesn’t mean expensive
A study casts doubt on the belief that students from disadvantaged backgrounds use up more resources at university. Recent research at La Trobe University’s Equity and Student Services…
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First graduates from new medical school
It was with some pride that the University of Western Sydney celebrated its first group of graduates from its school…
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No caps: watch the gaps
Allowing the market to dictate enrolments helps competition but may not always be good for the national interest. The federal…
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Call for policy change on low-SES students
The ways in which students from low socio-economic status are thought, and talked, about in Australian higher education bear examination.…
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