Skip to main content
Article
More nuanced student equity measures needed
Discover - Higher education
  • Daniel Edwards, Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)
  • Julie McMillan, Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)
  • Liang-Cheng Zhang, Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)
Publication Date
3-15-2022
Subjects
Higher education, Equal education, Social inclusion, Outcomes of education
Abstract

The Australian Department of Education, Skills and Employment has published a report that cautions against using ranking systems exclusively to determine equity policy in higher education, due to the fundamental difficulty of finding agreement on what constitutes equity and how it should be measured.

Place of Publication
Melbourne, Australia
Publisher
Australian Council for Educational Research
Citation Information
Edwards, D., McMillan, J., Zhang, L. (March 2022) 'More nuanced student equity measures needed', Discover, ACER. https://www.acer.org/au/discover/article/more-nuanced-student-equity-measures-needed