Year 12 students around Australia are beginning to receive their exam results. It’s a time of intense pressure for many young people.
- Senior Research Fellow, Curtin University
The ATAR is mainly used as an efficient way for universities to decide which students can be offered a place in a certain course.
Universities are increasingly accepting more students into degree programs without an ATAR. Here are some of the most common ways in.
The Coalition has had longer than a three year cycle to make some changes to education. But since the 2016 election, what has it actually done? And what is Labor proposing?
There are still some tricky equity issues for the incoming government to tackle.
Tensions between the government and the university sector ran high in 2018, with the government cutting funding to student places and research and a big push back from universities.
An administrative link between a graduate’s education and taxation records already exists, and it could be used to give us more accurate and detailed longitudinal analyses of graduate outcomes.
We should accept a modest level of attrition so we can keep providing opportunities for part-time and online students, who might not otherwise be able to study.
Though more moderate than the 2014 version, the new higher education reform package represents groundhog day for the major political parties.
Lower completion rates for rural and remote universities are not necessarily a reflection on the quality of the educational experience they provide, but reflect the demographics of their students.
While on the face of it a 1.5% increase in the number of disadvantaged students going to university might seem minimal, in real terms this is genuinely significant.
Now that the OLT is closing and the grants and fellowships are lost, it is not clear whether the government will play an active role in enhancing teaching excellence in our universities.
The ATAR system is cheap and efficient, but it means students are selected to go to university on the basis of a single score which some have claimed is too simplisitc. Is it time for a new system?
The latest Selected Higher Education Statistics have revealed an increase in student attrition, or the percentage of students commencing in 2013 who neither completed nor re-enrolled in 2014.
Labor has outlined its plan for universities should it be elected, saying it would be focusing on degree completion rather than enrolment.
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