Student Equity in Australian Higher Education

Dr Andrew Harvey is Director of the Access and Achievement Research Unit at La Trobe University in Victoria, Australia. Andrew has published widely in areas of higher education policy, including issues of university access, student equity, retention and attrition, postgraduate education, and students from out-of-home care backgrounds. He currently leads a range of external grant projects covering adaptations to tertiary admissions practices; global citizenship and student equity; and comparative international student equity frameworks.Dr Catherine Burnheim is Manager, Partnerships and Pathways at Monash University. Catherine has extensive experience in widening participation policy and practice, working with vocational education providers, rural communities, asylum seekers and mature age students. She writes extensively on higher education issues, including a recent co-authored chapter in The Dawkins Revolution: 25 Years On (G. Croucher et al. (eds), 2013, Melbourne University Press).Matt Brett is Senior Manager of Higher Education Policy at La Trobe University and has worked in equity policy across multiple Australian institutions. He has specific interests in disability and equity issues and previously prepared the University of Melbourne's Social Inclusion Plan, Mental Health Strategy and Disability Action Plan. Matt’s most recent publication on policy issues is a chapter on Equity Policy and Knowledge in Australian Higher Education (In T. Fitzgerald (Ed.), 2014, Information Science Reference).

• Section 1.- 1 Towards a fairer chance for all: Revising the Australian student equity framework.- 2 Framing the framework: The origins of A Fair Chance for All.- 3 Framing student equity in higher education: National and global policy contexts of A Fair Chance for All.- 4 First Peoples: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participation in higher education.- 5 Out of reach? University for people from low socio-economic status backgrounds.- 6 Disability and Australian Higher Education: Policy drivers for increasing participation.- 7 Ivory towers and glass ceilings: Women in non-traditional fields.- 8 Access, achievement and outcomes among students from non-English speaking backgrounds.- 9 Far from the studying crowd? Regional and rural Australians in higher education.- Section 2.- 10 Higher education and inequality in Anglo-American societies.- 11 Equity and markets.- 12 And Fairness for All? Equity and the international student cohort.- 13 Indigenous Australians and higher education:The contemporary policy agenda.- 14 Ladders of opportunity: Postgraduate equity, professions and the academic workforce.- 15 From equity to excellence: Reforming Australia's national framework to create new forms of success.- 16 Further and higher? Institutional diversity and stratification.