🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Thinking about doing a #PhD in #highered? Apply now for this PhD project focused on the value of HE for diverse students, studying at the Melbourne CSHE in Sem 2, 2023. The successful application will be supervised by Prof Chi Baik and Tracii Ryan. findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/opportunity/10…

Yay, Budget Night!! I’m strapped in with popcorn and bubbles!

The budget maintains funding for the Indigenous, Regional and Low SES Attainment Fund (IRLSAF) but the targets for Indigenous and low SES student participation remain below actual participation (as per the latest published data). We're aiming for a decrease?!

The Disability Support Program gets a top-up in this year's budget but the National Disability Coordination Officer program was abolished (saving the same amount). It was one of the few programs working across HE and VET. Reform would have been the better path. Poor trade-off.

And we’re off UniSTARS @amhhec #unistars Network Day! EPHEA Kylie + Nadine Zacharias Student Equity Network -What’s the problem -it’s a wicked problem -insights across the last decade - #HEPPP + Demand Driven System -Much still to be done!

Heard an argument that selective schools are good for equity, so made the below figure using the 2022 ICSEA from ACARA for NSW secondary schools (excl K-12 schools). Fully selective schools are some of the most advantaged schools in the system.

There's still time to register for: Accord Insights with an Equity lens. We will explore the initial Accord recommendations through an equity lens, generating discussion and insights about creating an accessible and inclusive #HigherEducation system. accordinsights.com.au

Today I am releasing the Interim Report of the Australian Universities Accord at National Press Club. 👇👇 education.gov.au/australian-uni…

#qanda Yes! Unpaid placement question!! We need change! The status quo is not sustainable!!

Here is my contribution to the discussion about the ongoing relevance of the national equity groups: Tracking student equity in higher education: Improving the status quo (while not throwing out the baby with the bathwater) open.substack.com/pub/needednowl…

This is such a game changer.

📢 New PhD Opportunity! We are joining with the University of Melbourne School of Social & Political Sciences to offer an interdisciplinary PhD scholarship to support research on governance & administration of supports for people with disability outside the NDIS. ⬇️ findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/opportunity/11…

#TEQSA23 joining online this year. The benefit of this is that I can have a belly laugh moment while Lisa Bolton is presenting! Very idiosyncratic ways Australian universities input their equity data. I can 💯 attest to that!

On #Insiders this Sunday, David Speers will interview Education Minister Jason Clare #auspol

🆕In special issue the development of Swinburne’s Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Program (HEPPP) Evaluation Framework, putting the needs of #FirstNations students at the heart of the methodology #StudentEquity 🔗doi.org/10.5204/ssj.35…