This report brings together 22 voices from across the Australian higher education landscape to examine what has changed for student equity and what more needs to be done. Their contributions span three themed sections – Rewriting the system: policy, structures and reform; Power, voice and justice; and Making equity real: practice, place and participation.

Despite historic efforts to improve rates of higher education participation for educationally disadvantaged students, these students remain under-represented in Australian universities. This research examined the characteristics and targeting of university-run equity initiatives in schools during 2022. The findings indicate that these programs did not effectively target disadvantaged or regional schools.

The Fellowship research sought to better understand how accountability for performance against equity policy goals and funding operates across the Australian higher education system.

The Office of Widening Participation at Western Sydney University delivers more than 50 programs in schools and around the university that aim to increase young people's educational engagement and aspirations for higher study. These programs are particularly focused on students from low SES backgrounds, and equity groups identified by the Bradley Review (2008) into higher...

Australian university disability practitioners have long advocated statements that describe the inherent requirements of academic programs. Students are protected by the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cth), which makes it unlawful to discriminate on the grounds of disability across a range of criteria that include denying access to any benefit provided by the educational authority, and...