And Fairness for All? Equity and the International Student Cohort
When A Fair Chance for All was developed, the international student cohort in Australia was small and its original exclusion from the Framework’s consideration is unsurprising in this context. However, while the authors themselves iterated the need for an
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dent Equity in Australian Higher Education Twenty-five years of A Fair Chance for All
Student Equity in Australian Higher Education
Andrew Harvey • Catherine Burnheim Matthew Brett Editors
Student Equity in Australian Higher Education Twenty-five years of A Fair Chance for All
Editors Andrew Harvey La Trobe University Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Catherine Burnheim Monash University Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Matthew Brett La Trobe University Melbourne, VIC, Australia
ISBN 978-981-10-0313-4 ISBN 978-981-10-0315-8 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-0315-8
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Preface
In 1990, the Australian Government developed a student equity framework for higher education. Within the Framework, known as A Fair Chance for All, the Government declared that all Australians should have the opportunity to participate successfully in higher education, and that this objective could be met by ‘changing the balance of the student population to reflect more closely the composition of society as a whole’ (Department of Education, Employment and Training, 1990, p. 2). Central to this vision was the establishment of six identified student equity groups: people from low socioeconomic backgrounds; Indigenous Australians; people from regional and remote areas; people with disabilities; people from nonEnglish speaking backgrounds; and women in non-traditional areas. Participation targets, funding allocations and policy decisions soon followed the designation of these groups. Twenty-five years later, A Fair Chance for All has endured despite dramatic change across the Australian higher education sector. In 2015, around a quarter of the higher education cohort comprise inte
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