VET providers, associate and bachelor degrees, and disadvantaged learners Report to the National VET Equity Advisory Council (NVEAC), Australia September 2013 Trevor Gale,a Steven Hodge,b Stephen Parker,a Shaun Rawolle,a Emma Charlton,a Piper Rodd,a Andrew Skourdoumbis,a and Tebeje Mollaa Deakin University a and University of Ballarat b STRATEGIC CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN EDUCATIONAL FUTURES AND INNOVATION (CREFI) DEAKIN UNIVERSITY, AUSTRALIA CITATION FOR THIS REPORT Gale, T., Hodge, S., Parker, S., Rawolle, S., Charlton, E., Rodd, P., Skourdoumbis, A. & Molla, T. (2013). VET Providers, Associate and Bachelor Degrees, and Disadvantaged Learners. Report to the National VET Equity Advisory Council (NVEAC), Australia. Centre for Research in Education Futures and Innovation (CREFI), Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. www.deakin.edu.au/arts-ed/efi/pubs/VET-associate- bachelor-degrees-disadvantaged-learners.pdf ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors are grateful to DIICCSRTE for developing new computer programming in order to generate data for this report and to the five case study institutions and staff for contributing their time, information and insights. We also acknowledge the support of Greg Stratton, Anne Savige and ‘The Warrnambool Collective’ in the preparation of this report. For more information about this report please contact Anne Savige: 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood VIC 3125 Australia T:+61 3 9244 6384
[email protected] www.deakin.edu.au/arts-ed/efi/ © Deakin University 2013 CREFI is a designated strategic research centre of Deakin University, Australia. Contents 1| Executive summary 7 2| Introduction 10 3| The policy context 19 4| Student participation 30 5| Introduction to case studies 51 6| Case 1: Associate Degree in Business (Sydney Inst.