Topic > Socio-economic disadvantage - 1456

Some examples are the Disadvantaged Schools Program (DSP), the Priority Schools Programme, gender equality and indigenous education. Above all indicators of the government's view of inequality in relation to education are often measured by retention in the HSC (year 12): Rudd's (2008) "Education Revolution" - (Digital Education Revolution (DER), Building the Education Revolution ( BER)); Bradley Review (Higher Education) 2008 (aiming to increase higher education enrollments by 20% by 2020); Measuring SES in College Students (DEEWR); Gonski (2011). More recently, the 2014 government website indicates multiple attempts to improve the SES through policy. There is the “Targeted Investments in Schools: Low-SES School Communities and Improving Literacy and Numeracy Skills” initiative. Additionally, national partnerships for low socioeconomic status school communities, for literacy and numeracy, and for improving teacher quality were activated from 2009 to 2013. For higher education, these initiatives provide assistance with infrastructure, student support, increasing equity, and improving the quality of higher education. HESA funding (2003) includes: the Commonwealth Grant Scheme (CGS), which provides funding to higher education institutions to help subsidize students' education costs; Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) arrangements that provide income-contingent loans to help students meet study costs; &