Participation in higher education in Australia among under-represented groups: What can we learn from the Higher Education Participation Program to better support Indigenous learners?

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Participation in higher education in Australia among under-represented groups: What can we learn from the Higher Education Participation Program to better support Indigenous learners?

In 1988 the release of the Higher Education: A Policy Statement White Paper focused Australia’s national higher education equity policy on “changing the balance of the student population to reflect more closely the composition of society as a whole” (Dawkins 1990, 2-3). While improvement in access a...

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Main Authors:	Smith, J., Trinidad, Sue, Larkin, S.
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	2015
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43605

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