Overview
- Provides the first comprehensive review of student equity policy in Australian higher education since the creation of A Fair Chance for All
- Examines the impact of sectoral expansion and competition on notions of student equity
- Critiques the identified student equity groups, and examines other marginalised groups and individuals
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Keywords
- A Fair Chance for All
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
- Australian Higher Education
- Dawkins reforms
- Deregulation of higher education
- Education in Australia
- Educational inequality
- Equity categories
- Framework for student equity
- Higher Education Contribution Scheme
- Indigenous Australians
- Low socio-economic status
- Low socioeconomic students
- Regional and remote areas students
- Regional equity
- Student Equity
- Student equity in higher education
- Students from non-English speaking backgrounds
- Students with disabilities
- Women in non-traditional areas
Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Part I
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Part II
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr Catherine Burnheim is Manager, Partnerships and Pathways at Monash University. Catherine has extensive experience in widening participation policy and practice, working with vocational education providers, rural communities, asylum seekers and mature age students. She writes extensively on higher education issues, including a recent co-authored chapter in The Dawkins Revolution: 25 Years On (G. Croucher et al. (eds), 2013, Melbourne University Press).
Matt Brett is Senior Manager of Higher Education Policy at La Trobe University and has worked in equity policy across multiple Australian institutions. He has specific interests in disability and equity issues and previously prepared the University of Melbourne's Social Inclusion Plan, Mental Health Strategy and Disability Action Plan. Matt’s most recent publication on policy issues is a chapter on Equity Policy and Knowledge in Australian Higher Education (In T. Fitzgerald (Ed.), 2014, Information Science Reference).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Student Equity in Australian Higher Education
Book Subtitle: Twenty-five years of A Fair Chance for All
Editors: Andrew Harvey, Catherine Burnheim, Matthew Brett
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0315-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-0313-4Published: 06 April 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9131-5Published: 25 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-0315-8Published: 29 March 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 292
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 34 illustrations in colour
Topics: Higher Education, Educational Policy and Politics, International and Comparative Education