Framing Student Equity in Higher Education: National and Global Policy Contexts of A Fair Chance for All

2016 ◽  
pp. 39-52
Author(s):  
Sam Sellar ◽  
Trevor Gale
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Global Policy ◽  
Student Equity ◽  
Fair Chance

The activation, appropriation and practices of student-equity policy in Australian higher education

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 377-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Peacock ◽  
Sam Sellar ◽  
Bob Lingard
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Equity ◽  
Equity Policy

scholarly journals “Shining a Light” on Mature-Aged Students In, and From, Regional and Remote Australia

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-27
Author(s):  
Nicole Crawford ◽  
Sherridan Emery
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Institutional Support ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
Shared Experiences ◽  
Student Equity ◽  
National Centre ◽  
Full Participation ◽  
Part Time

This article shines a light on a little-known cohort of higher education participants, mature-aged students in, and from, regional and remote Australia – the focus of a National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education mixed-methods study. Notable patterns were found in the quantitative data; for instance, compared to their metropolitan counterparts, higher proportions of regional and remote students were older, female, from low socio-economic status areas, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, and studied online and/or part-time. The presentation of four vignettes from the interviews uncovers the stories behind the numbers, revealing students’ diverse and complex circumstances; two of the students shared experiences of facing systemic obstacles, while the other two described receiving invaluable institutional support. The obstacles can be attributed to systems designed for “ideal”, “implied” and “traditional” students, and entrenched attitudes that privilege some “types” of students over others and limit the aim of full participation for all students.

scholarly journals Introduction

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariya Ivancheva ◽  
Ivo Syndicus
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Research University ◽  
Policy Reform ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Global Policy ◽  
American Research ◽  
The Common ◽  
Anglo American

In recent years, an increasing body of work has addressed the ‘corporatisation’ and ‘commodification’ of universities, as well as higher education sector reforms more broadly. This work refers mostly to the traditional core hubs of higher education, such as the Anglo-American research university. In the emerging anthropology of higher education policy, accounts of the implementation and negotiation of reforms in more ‘peripheral’ contexts often remain absent. This collection of articles addresses this absence by focusing on the interplay between narratives of global policy reform and the processes of their implementation and negotiation in different contexts in the academic ‘periphery’. Bringing together work from a range of settings and through different lenses, the special issue provides insights into the common processes of reform that are underway and how decisions to implement certain reforms reaffirm rather than challenge peripheral positions in higher education.

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