First Peoples education
Alternative labels
Indigenous education
Discussion paper
Closing the gap - the next phase: public discussion paper
Australian governments have committed to work in genuine partnership with Indigenous leaders, organisations and communities, to identify the priorities that will inform how governments can better design and deliver programs and services, to close the gap.
Briefing paper
Equity student participation in Australian higher education: 2011 to 2016
Equity Student Participation in Australian Higher Education examines trends in higher education undergraduate enrolments in Australia between 2011 and 2016. This six-year period has been a time of marked change in Australian higher education, with the demand-driven system (DDS) increasing overall student numbers, while programs such as the Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Program (HEPPP)...
Evaluation
Cost benefit analysis of the Murri School healing program
This report presents evaluation findings of an healing program run in the Murri School, Queensland.
Report
Identifying strategies for improving VET to higher education transitions for Indigenous learners
VET to higher education pathways and transitions are a viable pathway option for Indigenous students, but further action is required to support such transitions.
Report
Fair connection to professional careers: Understanding social difference and disadvantage, institutional dynamics and technological opportunities
People from equity groups are underrepresented in university degrees associated with high-status professions. The reasons for this are complex and relate to poverty, familial and community norms and expectations, inequitable access to high quality and adequately resourced schooling which affects achievement, and continuing incorrect deficit assumptions related to people’s socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds The application...