Equity by Design

@edwarner57 @NikkiGemmell Or RN Breakfast! I’d love him in that slot

@NikkiGemmell Hamish is more RN Drive than Sydney mornings

SMH reporting that Hamish MacDonald is tipped to take over from Sarah Mac on 702 Mornings. Right. Will he do it better? No. It smacks to me of blatant sexism-management not able to cope with 2 women on air during the day, now that Chris Bath is in Drive. What year are we in?

@r_ajjawi @ubcMedCHES Safe travels! And have a wonderful start to the new life!

@andrewjnorton Regional students on metro campuses tend to struggle financially (having to move away from home) and socially (losing their support network). Not providing needs-based funding to regional students on metro campuses is likely to reduce support and limit choice for students

In my high-speed reading & tweeting of the Budget last night I missed the significance of who is going to get needs-based funding - low SES, First Nations, students with disability & students studying in, but not from, regional areas.

On #Insiders this Sunday, David Speers will interview Education Minister Jason Clare #auspol

#TEQSA23 joining online this year. The benefit of this is that I can have a belly laugh moment while @LisaBolton_QILT is presenting! Very idiosyncratic ways Australian universities input their equity data. I can 💯 attest to that!

@andrewjnorton They used to release figures in September. I appreciate that was pre-TCSI…

@Equity_ByDesign Based on past performance, February 2024! But I have no official information.

I'm 95% sure that domestic enrolments are down, but I don't think overall bachelor degree enrolments are down 12%. theguardian.com/australia-news…

@andrewjnorton Any word on when we’ll get 2022?!

Almost every week I am asked basic questions like how many university students are there, which I cannot reliably answer because the Department has not released data later than 2021.

@kjnnelson @kerrileekrause I’ve ordered it too 😊

Many thanks ⁦@kerrileekrause⁩ for sharing your expertise and extensive experience in Higher Ed leadership. Well done on the timely publication of this guide!

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@KiftSally @ACUmedia Such a shame they’re a direct clash too!!

🤔Compare the pair 1⃣@ACUmedia FREE ($0) Online Equity Symposium 25-26 Sept >400 regos 2⃣Anor commercial Co price gouging F2F 'Disadvantage in HE Conf' 26-27 Sept @$1995+GST with speakers funding own travel!!! Great speakers at both Which would you choose? #OzHE needs to wise-up

@andrewjnorton @OESdotcom Maybe it shows different levels of outsourcing to partners? At Swinburne, for example, this count would not include support provided to online students through OES or all students through Swinburne Student Life

Wonder if Swinburne is low due to outsourcing to @OESdotcom and RMIT due to the Vietnam campus employees not being counted in the staff data.

New paper on uni workforce trends from @Gwil_C . Unis vary in their level of non-academic staff per EFTSL. Does not obviously vary by uni type. melbourne-cshe.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/…

@barriecassidy It is a game changer! In tears 💜

This is such a game changer.

Here is my contribution to the discussion about the ongoing relevance of the national equity groups: Tracking student equity in higher education: Improving the status quo (while not throwing out the baby with the bathwater) open.substack.com/pub/needednowl…

#qanda Yes! Unpaid placement question!! We need change! The status quo is not sustainable!!

@conoranalysis It’s a question of priorities: most Australian universities have a reference to equity/equal opportunity/social justice in their mission statements. How does that get operationalised? Who leads this agenda? Is it important enough to create a senior role?

@conoranalysis At their best, Equity leaders and teams can have institution-wide impact. Think Mary Kelly at QUT, Judy Skene at UWA, Verity Firth at UTS, Kylie Austin at UOW. I’d like to think I did at Deakin and, to a lesser extent, at Swinburne.

@conoranalysis Where Equity Directors exist as direct reports to Execs and can use that positional power to drive an equity agenda, real change can happen. Where they get sidelined and relegated to the lower echelons, they operate in disconnected siloes

@conoranalysis I think you need to distinguish pre-2010 efforts from everything that came after. At its peak, HEPPP was 12 times larger than its predecessor program