This blog post describes the challenges and complexities faced by students with disability when selecting subjects for Year 11 and 12. It argues that for Australia to realise its aspirations of excellence and equity, schools and universities must become genuinely inclusive and that a prosperous future for Australia hinges on its collective commitment to advocate...

The roadmap provides an overarching national framework to empower stakeholders to work collaboratively to improve the equity, effectiveness and efficiency of the jobs and skills system across Regional Australia. It identifies cross-cutting themes, develops performance indicators and provides an overall assessment of the way forward with ten policy principles to inform and shape future policies.

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.

This policy brief outlines the study Unequal from the start: the achievement gap and the early years. The research examined early cognitive and developmental differences among children aged from birth to five years. The findings underscore the need for policy changes to address educational inequity, and to overcome the effects of disadvantage before they become...

The concentration of university campuses in Australian capital cities systematically diminishes opportunities for people living in regional locations. This article presents research that captures the voices and experiences of students studying on three small regional university campuses from Victoria, Tasmania and Western Australia. It calls for higher education policies to include regional student voices.