A Forgotten Cohort? Including People from Out-of-Home Care in Australian Higher Education Policy

Autor/inn/en	Harvey, Andrew; Andrewartha, Lisa; McNamara, Patricia
Titel	A Forgotten Cohort? Including People from Out-of-Home Care in Australian Higher Education Policy
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Education, 59 (2015) 2, S.182-195 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0004-9441
DOI	10.1177/0004944115587529
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Equal Education; Educational Quality; Foster Care; Residential Care; Access to Education; Foreign Countries; Incentives; Legislation; College Attendance; Policy Analysis; Educational History; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Pflegehilfe; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Ausland; Anreiz; Gesetzgebungslehre; College; Colleges; Attendance; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Anwesenheit; Politikfeldanalyse; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Australien
Abstract	People from out-of-home care backgrounds are largely absent from Australian higher education equity policy. Compared with the UK, Australia has moved slowly to consider legislative and programme incentives for young people who leave state, foster or kinship care and who wish to access higher education. One major reason for the relative inaction of the Australian higher education sector towards this cohort is the rigidity of the national equity framework established in 1990. This article argues that policy reform is required to improve the participation of people from out-of-home care backgrounds in Australian higher education. Effort could be directed into revising the national equity framework, in particular by including out-of-home care as a specific group to be monitored. In addition to revising the national policy architecture, further devolution of equity policy to institutional level may enable greater engagement with the out-of-home care cohort. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01