Indigenous student participation and success in higher education

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Indigenous student participation and success in
higher education

• Professor Roger Thomas
• Chair, Indigenous Higher Education Advisory
  Council (IHEAC)
• Director, Wilto Yerlo, Centre for Australian
  Indigenous Studies, University of Adelaide

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Indigenous student participation
Number of Indigenous commencing and all enrolled
students and Indigenous award course
completions, 2001-2006 Australia
Source All data is sourced from Students,
Selected Higher Education Statistics (DEEWR).
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Indigenous staffing
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Goals

• Parity of participation and success
• Parity of staffing levels
• Strong Indigenous governance
• Appropriate status of Indigenous knowledge
• Culturally competent universities

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Indigenous Australia a growing and young
demographic
ESTIMATED RESIDENT POPULATION BY AGE
Source ABS (2006 Census) POPULATION
CHARACTERISTICS,ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT,
ISLANDER AUSTRALIANS
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Ways forward

• National Indigenous University Workforce Strategy
• Indigenous Learned Academy
• Indigenous Centre for Research Excellence
• Cultural competency - core graduate attribute
• Flexible support for Indigenous students