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This Progress Report conveys something of the life and pace of the first three years (2008-2011) of Australia’s National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education during its establishment phase. The Report is a record of significant activity and influence in student equity research, practice and policy informed by a new agenda for widening participation in Australian higher education. It also provides direction for the sector in pursuing that agenda. The evidence in the pages of this Report suggests that much has been achieved but the task is big and far from complete. Student equity in Australian higher education is still a work in progress. The lesson of the UK’s widening participation agenda is that change occurs slowly and incrementally. Changing entrenched socioeconomic and cultural arrangements requires coordinated commitments of time, funding and informed effort. In these pages you will find an account of the National Centre’s activities to date. However, more importantly we trust you will also get a sense of the way forward and of what can be achieved collaboratively, through informed policy and practice.

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