- Title
- Directions for Australian higher education institutional policy and practice in supporting students from low socioeconomic backgrounds
- Creator
- Devlin, Marcia; O'Shea, Helen
- Date
- 2011
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/75459
- Identifier
- vital:7366
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/1360080X.2011.605227
- Identifier
- ISSN:1360-080X
- Abstract
- The Australian Government's response to the 2008 Bradley Review of higher education has set clear targets for increased university participation of people from low socioeconomic status backgrounds. Using a ‘success-focused’ methodological approach, this research documents the factors that a sample of 53 later-year, low socioeconomic status background students at one Australian university report have assisted them to manage and overcome the challenges of remaining at, progressing through and succeeding at university. Thematic analyses of the data identified the most helpful factors as including the students' own study behaviour around, and attitude toward, study; teacher characteristics; institutional support of particular kinds; and student-to-student connections. Directions for institutional policy and practice are outlined.
- Relation
- Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management Vol. 33, no. 5 (2011), p. 529-556
- Rights
- Copyright Taylor and Francis
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Institutional policy; Institutional practice; Low socioeconomic status; Student success; 1605 Policy and Administration; 1301 Education Systems
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