Creating Accessible Teaching and Support

The Asia Pacific Regional (AsPac) 2010 Regional Conference will be held in Hobart from 17 - 19 November, 2010.

The USQ Office of Social Justice will be conducting a half day seminar (20 September 2010), at the Toowoomba campus, which will showcase a number of projects, aimed at removing barriers to university ...

Vision Australia Texpo and Open Days 2010 will be held in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. There will be displays of products and technology that can assist people who are blind or have low vision. The...

The latest Australian Bureau of Statistics on young Australians with mental illness.

The second annual Student Equity in Higher Education national conference will be held 11 & 12 October 2010 in Melbourne (MCG Function Rooms). The theme of this year’s conference is Aspiration, Mobilit...

Living with a mental illness can be a tough experience for adults, but with the increasing numbers of youth diagnosed and taking medications for mood disorders, it can become a time of isolation, acco...

Increasing numbers of disabled students are dropping out. What are universities doing wrong?

Too many intellectually disabled Victorians are controlled by drugs or restrained instead of receiving earlier treatment under funded programs, an expert says.

The Group of Eight (Go8) has appointed Ms Margaret Heagney to a new national student equity convenor role. The role will be responsible for co-ordinating and facilitating the group’s equity activitie...

The Socioeconomic Status and Australian Higher Education Students Symposium was held at UTS in April 2010. The presentations are now available from equity101 for download.