Equity in higher education

Find out how to ensure that all students and staff within higher education have an equal opportunity to succeed, regardless of individual challenges or varied educational backgrounds. Equity is about ensuring university support and policies enable everyone to flourish, taking into account the wide range of differing needs across a campus community, as these resources explain.

By Miranda Prynne, 4 August, 2022

Address STEM inequality by reconceiving merit

Image of a young black woman scientist
The cultural yardsticks used to measure merit in STEM are warped with bias and often devalue women, people of colour and LGBTQ+ scientists with records equal to white heterosexual male peers. To fix STEM inequality, academia must reconceive merit
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By Miranda Prynne, 24 February, 2022

Supporting equity among students in group work

Advice on steps instructors can take to encourage equitable group dynamics among students
Natasha Holmes and Kira Treibergs share strategies for preventing implicit biases affecting student group dynamics, and facilitating productive and equitable teamwork
Equity in higher education