Session Topics

• What will convince the community that educational equity is a national priority?
• Which students are still being left behind?
• What is required to turbo-charge Indigenous student access, participation and success?
• Are there dangers in the short-form/ micro-credentials push for equity group students?
• What additional support will be required for first year university for both school leavers and new/ returning second chance learners (mature age) as more of them return to study in response both to COVID-19 workforce disruption and to the changing world of work?

Session Speakers

• The Hon. Verity Firth - Executive Director, UTS
• Professor Andrew Harvey - Executive Director, Student Equity | Director, Centre for Higher Education Equity and Diversity Research
• Professor Braden Hill - Pro Vice Chancellor Equity and Indigenous, Edith Cowan University
• Professor Sarah O’Shea - Director, National Centre of Student Equity in Higher Education, Curtin University

Needed Now 2021 provides insights into learning and teaching that you won’t find anywhere else this year, in a convenient series of online webinars brought to you by Sally Kift, Campus Morning Mail, and Twig Marketing.

Each day during conference week we will bring information-intensive webinars facilitated by expert communicators, drawing insights from a panel of experts from across the higher education sector.