Vocational institutions, undergraduate degrees: dissemination report

The 'Vocational institutions, undergraduate degrees: distinction or inequality', Australian Research Council Discovery Project DP170101885 aims to identify effects on equity of broadening participation to undergraduate degrees through the recent expansion of higher education in vocational institutions and understand the effects of these degrees on enabling the higher education system to respond to the global drivers for social and economic restructuring through new forms of distinction. This dissemination report has been issued at the close of the project. The research contributes new knowledge of the expansion of Australia's higher education system through the growth of bachelor's degrees in state based public providers of vocational education and training, the TAFEs. Identifying the range, scale and distinctiveness of this provision, along with understandings about the students undertaking these degrees and their experiences, the project provides insights for policy and practice at national, state and institutional level to reform higher education into a more equitable lifelong learning system to meet the needs of new students, especially of mature age, to obtain high level qualifications demanded for national innovation and economic restructuring.

Edited excerpts from publisher's website. Show less