Student aspirations for higher education in Central Queensland : a survey of school students’ navigational capacities

In recent times, student aspiration for higher education has become the subject of Australian Government policy and school/university partnerships. A perceived shortfall in aspiration for higher education – particularly by under-represented groups – is seen to be frustrating the achievement of the Government’s targets for universities

Recalling Resistance: remembering the First World War in Canada and Australia

This paper examines the nationalist myth-making that emerged during WWI in Australia and Canada, arguing that similar patterns can be detected in popular efforts to make meaning if the conflict.It will then investigate the bases and nature if dissent, especially as they coalesced around the issue if conscription in the two dominions. Key to this analysis is an examination if the nature if the emerging form, style and meaning made if democracy and cultural identity in both societies. I argue that genuine anti-war movements emerged in response to the war, with their own conceptions if national virtue, but that these movements, like the ideals that inspired them, already had long traditions to draw upon. Those currents if belief and experience sustained them both during and after the conflict. While war resistance has been a topic if some interest to historians, these experiences, and the traditions if dissent that questioned war in the New World democracies, are barely remembered and receive no public commemoration, let alone celebration, in contemporary Canadian and Australian societies increasingly concerned with venerating all-things- war. Yet genuine alternatives for remembering the war exist today, nurtured as they have been by those dedicated to them for a century

Student voice in \u27skills for sustainability\u27: a missing component from the demand side of Australian vocational education and training

The implementation of the Green Skills Agreement ratified by the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) in 2010 provides the national policy context for this analysis of skills for sustainability. Data from three different but complementary studies provide powerful insight into the attitudes and perceptions of young people who are studying, or are recent graduates of, Australian Vocational Education and Training (VET) programs. We argue that the voices of the young people who participate as students are largely absent from analysis and policy-making, despite policy rhetoric about a demand driven Australian tertiary education sector responsive to consumer (student) interest and need. The combination of these three studies contributes to an improved understanding of what these young adults think and are learning with regard to skills for sustainability in their VET courses and in their workplaces. Most notably, these VET students reported that increasingly changes around skills for sustainability are being implemented into both their work roles and their courses of study

Higher Education and Student Aspiration: A study of the adaptive preferences of Year 9 students in Corio, Victoria

In recent times, student aspiration for higher education has become the subject of Australian Government policy and school/university partnerships. A perceived shortfall in aspiration for higher education – particularly by under-represented groups – is seen to be frustrating the achievement of the Government’s targets for universities

VET Providers, Associate and Bachelor Degrees, and Disadvantaged Learners

This report on VET Providers, Associate and Bachelor Degrees, and Disadvantaged Learners, is derived from research commissioned by the National VET Equity Advisory Council (NVEAC) and conducted by researchers at Deakin University and the University of Ballarat. It is particularly concerned with the impact for disadvantaged learners of associate and bachelor degrees offered by vocational education and training (VET) providers