This website was developed by a project team comprising EOPHEA and University of Tasmania representatives, with funding from the Department of Education, Science and Training through the Higher Education Innovations Program (HEIP).

Project Team

Tony Payne, University of Tasmania; Pat McLean, University of Melbourne; Ruth Thompson, University of Technology Sydney and EOPHEA. The team was supported by Jill Barker, Katharine Ebbs and Georgia Sutton.

Project Outcomes

EdEquity Australia provides a range of resources to equity practitioners and others via the World Wide Web.  It aims to improve the effectiveness of equity initiatives and programs in Australian institutions by:

• providing improved access to information about people, programs, research studies, useful resources and trends concerning student equity in tertiary education;
• facilitating the development of a more informed and better resourced network of equity practitioners and researchers;
• promoting better understanding of equity issues throughout the tertiary education sector; and
• reducing duplication and increasing shared development of resource materials and programs.