Equity

Review of Higher Education Access and Outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People

Within Australia, there are approximately 1,500 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander identifying students, constituting less than 0.5% of total postgraduate enrolment. This lies substantially below the 2.2% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander representation within the wider community. These students are broadly distributed across Australia’s 39 Universities and Batchelor Institute for Indigenous Tertiary Education.

Federal Government’s Reality Check on RTS

The Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) has welcomed the release of the Consultation Paper for informing the development of the Federal Government’s Research Workforce Strategy. The Consultation Paper follows directly from Building Australia's Research Capacity, the Final report from the 2008 House of Reps Inquiry into Research Training and Research Workforce Issues.

Victoria Equal Opportunity & Human Rights Commission – Hate Crime Survey

Submitted by Katya Pechenkina on Thu, 2010-04-08 15:45

Victorian Equal Opportunity & Human Rights Commission is conducting a survey on Victorians' experiences of harassment, vilification and crime motivated by hatred and prejudice to help us develop our submission to the State Government hate crime review - see information below.

SPRC Youth and Poverty Newsletter

Submitted by Katya Pechenkina on Thu, 2010-03-11 16:10

This is a useful and topical article with regard to education, opportunity and affordability/widening participation issues.

Terror Down Under: Reasons for attacks on Indian students in Australia are complex

THE truth”, says Oscar Wilde, “is rarely pure, and never simple”. This is especially true in the case of the recent spate of attacks on Indian students that are being attributed to a mix of racism and opportunism in Australia.

Most incidents of “curry bashing” (South Asians are called “curries” in Australia) are occurring in Melbourne, a sprawling cosmopolitan metropolis that is home to some 140 nationalities from the world over who speak in over 120 different languages.

Discussion Paper: An Indicator Framework for Higher Education Performance Funding

Submitted by Nigel Palmer on Tue, 2010-02-02 15:23

[From the DEEWR website]

The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) in consultation with the Indicator Development Group of higher education experts has developed a discussion paper on the framework of indicators that could be used to negotiate targets with universities for the purposes of performance funding for teaching and learning. 

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