Congratulations to the following EOPHEA members for being recognised by the Australian Teaching and Learning Council an receiving a Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning:
A selection of 30 year ten students from NSW Priority Action Schools experienced university for the first time last week building robots with engineers from the UTS Faculty of Engineering and IT. The Make a Real Robot Project is part of an ongoing outreach program run by UTS during the school holidays to grow the aspirations of students who face many challenges to gaining a degree.
In this paper the author provides a broad overview of outreach and student engagement strategies
used in Australian universities and raise key issues in regard to improving access to higher
education for disadvantaged and under-represented students.
The ‘Social inclusion in education’ roundtable is an opportunity for policy officials and Australia’s social sciences researchers to share knowledge of what we know and don’t know about the question of social inclusion in education.The purpose of the briefing paper is to support the roundtable discussion by providing participants with background to the current policy discussion, a summary of the findings and current research investigations, and to match this information to the primary topics for discussion.
Speaking on ‘Engaging the Community as Partners in Social Inclusion,’ Senator Stephens set out the importance of partnerships and collaboration in tackling educational disadvantage.
This paper outlines research investigating the practice and conceptualisation of university-community engagement, in historical perspective and in the immediate context of neo-liberal hegemony in policy, through an international comparative case study of university-community educational initiatives. It aims to consider possibilities and constraints in achieving social justice outcomes through collaborative university-community educational initiatives.
