- Title
- How do we reach them? The importance of reimagining and contextualising the Design and Evaluation Matrix for Outreach (DEMO) for mature age equity groups
- Relation
- https://www.newcastle.edu.au/research/centre/ceehe/access-critical-explorations-of-equity-in-higher-education
- Relation
- Access: Critical explorations of equity in higher education Vol. , Issue , p.
- Publisher
- University of Newcastle
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- When the Review of Australian Higher Education (aka the Bradley Review) (Bradley, Noonan, Nugent, & Scales, 2008) was published 20 years ago, it recommended that Australia ensure a skilled workforce into the future through increased participation in higher education domestically, achievable by increasing groups of students traditionally underrepresented in higher education. As a result, the Federal Government introduced the Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Program (HEPPP) funding model with the primary target group being people from low socioeconomic status ( SES) backgrounds. While the majority of initiatives since undertaken have been focussed on increasing participation of low SES school leavers, there are also a range of initiatives aimed at engaging or re-engaging potential mature age students from these backgrounds. The targets set in the Bradley Review have drawn attention to the importance of outreach in engaging mature age students and building aspiration in these students for H igher Education as well as building understanding about universities and their processes and offering initiatives to encourage a sense of belonging on entry to higher education for a range of people who may never have considered a degree qualification. This paper is a think piece that considers the need to reimagine and contextualise existing approaches to outreach for the specific cohort with whom practitioners are aiming to engage. It considers the application of the Design and Evaluation Matrix for Outreach (DEMO) developed by Gale et al. (2010), to community-based outreach aimed at engaging mature age people and retaining them once they move into higher education. Also considered are the ways in which the mature age application of the DEMO may be similar or different to school-based cohort use, and why the approach may need to be contextualised for the implementation of effective outreach.
- Subject
- mature age students; community-based outreach; higher education; widening partcipation; DEMO; Access: Critical explorations of equity in higher education
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1433874
- Identifier
- uon:39398
- Identifier
- ISSN:1440-7833
- Rights
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
- Language
- eng
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