This report aims to describe a model of best practice in Australia that will facilitate the transition of people with disabilities from tertiary education and training into their postgraduate careers. A review of the literature and an investigation of strategies currently being utilised in both the United Kingdom and Australia will inform this description.
This paper produces two sets of estimates of future (domestic) student demand for higher education in Australia. The two sets of estimates allow us to consider the capacity of the university sector to accommodate future growth in student numbers (including staff and facilities), and to identify the costs involved, including for the Government which has undertaken to fund student demand at the undergraduate level.
The CQUniversity strategic plan 2010-2013 provides a clear mandate for our commitment to student equity. It includes an overarching vision of how the principles of equity and social inclusion inform our university's engagement with the Central Queensland region and its communities.
Ministers met at Swinburne University of Technology, a dual sector institution, whose successful track record in educating both Vocational Education and Training and Higher Education students highlights the potential for educational institutions to provide better connected learning pathways to students. In a presentation to members on the university’s achievements the Chancellor, Mr Bill Scales, announced a new initiative guaranteeing a pathway from vocational education and training to university.
Access La Trobe provides information and advice on La Trobe University's access and equity programs, which support a variety of pathways to undergraduate study.
Clemente Australia is community embedded, socially supported university education delivering key personal, social and economic benefits for people and communities who are marginalised or disadvantaged. This paper presents the roles of the university together with welfare, health and corporate organisations in the delivery of the program. It also examines the contributions of the partnership in terms of quality services, personal wellbeing of the course participants, personal, community and institutional capacity building, enhancing social capital and advocacy.
In Sydney, tertiary-level education in the humanities is offered to homeless and other
marginalised people in the form of two courses: the ‘Clemente’ program and the ‘Catalyst’
program. The paper discusses the results of initial research into the impact of the
programs on their students. This discussion focuses on perceived changes in self-efficacy,
social connectedness, and interpersonal relating. The paper also critically examines the nature
and purpose of the programs, and future directions for research into education programs for
disadvantaged people.
The second seminar in the 2009 Tertiary Education Policy Seminar series was presented by the Centre for the Study of Higher Education and the LH Martin Institute for Higher Education Leadership and Management. A video and audio recordings of the seminar can be accessed from the site.
