The Critical Interventions Framework Part 3: Programs and approaches that enable equity in higher education – Equity Initiatives Impact Studies Guide

This report, known as the Equity Initiatives Impact Studies Guide, provides an overview of recent equity interventions in Australian higher education which have demonstrated effectiveness across different stages of the student life cycle for identified equity groups through published impact studies. The report also presents an updated Equity Initiatives Framework (EIF 2.0), which can be used in concert with the other resource developed during the project, the Equity Studies Library; all of which are intended for use by providers to enhance the provision and evaluation of equity programs.

This project focused on evaluative studies detailing the impact of interventions or programs, to highlight the mechanisms which have enabled students from equity groups to gain access to and succeed in higher education. Without these interventions, as many of the studies discuss, it is unlikely that the various gains made for the inclusion and success of equity groups in higher education achieved so far would have occurred.