- Title
- The impact of enabling programs on indigenous participation, success and retention in Australian higher education
- Creator
- Pitman, Tim; Harvey, Andrew; McKay, Jade; Devlin, Marcia; Trinidad, Sue; Brett, Matthew
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/164113
- Identifier
- vital:13021
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4062-7_14
- Identifier
- ISBN:9789811040627 (ISBN); 9789811040610 (ISBN)
- Abstract
- Indigenous people remain extremely under-represented in Australian higher education. Despite a substantial increase in the overall number of Indigenous university enrolments since the demand-driven system was introduced, representation remains well below population parity (cf. Department of Education and Training 2015; Wilks and Wilson 2015). Along with participation rates, the university success and retention rates of Indigenous students are also relatively low (Behrendt et al. 2012). The causes of this under-representation and under-achievement have been well-documented. At one level, the relatively low secondary school completion and achievement levels of Indigenous people help to explain under-representation at the next level of education. At a deeper level, educational outcomes reflect broader disadvantage, historical exclusion and discrimination, and a system of education in which respect for culture and diversity often remains limited (Liddle 2016).
- Publisher
- Springer Singapore
- Relation
- Indigenous Pathways, Transitions and Participation in Higher Education : From Policy to Practice Chapter 14 p. 235-249
- Rights
- Copyright © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017. This book is published open access. Open Access This book is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this book are included in the book’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the book’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder.
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Rights
- Culturally sensitive
- Subject
- Enabling programs; Indigenous students; Higher education; Australia; Participation; Success; Retention
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