Australian universities are recruiting fewer students from disadvantaged and poor backgrounds, putting in doubt the federal government’s ambitious plans to expand access to higher education.
Australian universities are recruiting fewer students from disadvantaged and poor backgrounds, putting in doubt the federal government’s ambitious plans to expand access to higher education .
There are 11 universities where fewer than 10 per cent of bachelor students come from low socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds and four of them are in Sydney, aThe universities with the lowest proportion of low-income students include some of the east coast’s most prestigious institutions such as Melbourne University, the Australian National University and Sydney University. The institutions educating the largest proportion of low-SES students are largely in regional areas led by TheEquity rates on a national level have gone backwards compared to five years ago, with just 16.22 per cent of domestic undergraduate students coming from a disadvantaged background – as measured by their address – in 2022, compared to 17.05 in 201
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